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On 12/22/2015 02:14 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I'd replace gkeys-gen with a ~10-line shell script ... if I had some |
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>> motivation to dig through some old experiments of mine where I managed |
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>> to set all parameters for pgp from CLI. Which is all that gkeys-gen |
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>> would do! |
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> Sounds great. |
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>> I guess we fundamentally disagree - if you do shoddy work, it is shoddy. |
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>> I won't praise you for it. |
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> Nobody is looking for your praise. |
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>> That's my time, spent to work around deficiencies I shouldn't even see - |
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>> if other people had done their job. And that's just frustrating if it |
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>> happens again and again, and instead of doing something interesting I |
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>> spend most of my time just being janitor and cleaning up stuff. |
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> I hope you're not the one looking for praise. I can't imagine that |
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> your pep talk has done a great deal to motivate people to spend time |
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> improving the Gentoo Keys experience. |
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Well, it's abandoned anyway (bugs open for >1 year means there's |
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literally no one working on it, for a year) |
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Like the git 'migration' it's half-finished work with little thought |
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about workflow or user experience, "Change is Progress" |
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If we didn't have it at all I would not have had to file bugs, spend |
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time being very confused, etc. So all in all it has negative value in |
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its current state. And it wastes the time of everyone who tries to use |
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it, which is a few man-weeks of work ground away with inefficiency and |
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carelessness. Imagine how much progress we could have had if someone had |
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spent one afternoon on writing coherent docs! |
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> Do you want to see this fixed? |
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> Are you willing to do the fixing yourself? |
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I don't have infinite time, and wasting a day documenting things that |
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should have been documented a year ago is not a good way of spending time. |
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> If the answer to the first question is yes, and the second is no, then |
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> you've just volunteered for the job of either community motivator, or |
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> frustrated user. The goal then is to make people care more about |
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> going out of their way to fix things than going out of their way to |
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> find ways to make you even more frustrated. Which do you think is |
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> going to be more emotionally satisfying to those who read this thread? |
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Things working. |
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So, the trick is not to have user-visible breakage. |
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Now you know the great trick too and can apply it to your daily life. |