[om-council] Council meeting April 21st follow-up [1]

rugyada rugyada at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 06:23:27 EDT 2016


2016-04-23 1:10 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at lindev.ch>:
>
> At the same time, we haven't been able to pull in many new contributors to
> take their places. I think that's because we're invisible to the outside
> world, and most people don't want to work on something nobody uses.
>

This is the point I wish to stress.
Timing matters. Or we're ready with OM3 tomorrow, or without support
or refresh/respin for OM2 the risk is to disappear.
>From PR (**my field**) POV OMLx2 respin release could do the trick for
increasing (better: getting again) the buzz around our project.


> And to make things worse, this sort of thing is a self-amplifying problem:
> We have less manpower, but at the same time people expect us to do more and
> more (this isn't meant as an attack as people who have been calling on us to
> do more - but how can we, despite a small and shrinking team, ramp up our
> efforts and: support another CPU type, keep supporting an old release, add
> another desktop, ...?)
> This doesn't exactly help, and being screamed at when saying we won't do
> something doesn't exactly help keep people motivated. (With the "screamed
> at", I'm not talking about people here doing the screaming - but some people
> on mailing lists don't really understand why we won't commit to doing some
> things that they thought made Mandrake great back in its days).
>

Imho we need to be clear and not to be ashamed to say we're a small team.
As said before we should be proud of our really great work even in
such hard condition.

Another thing: be decisive! Strong in our positions.
If we as a project/team agreed on taking any decision, then it's like
that. Because we discussed it, considered every option, and ended to
that outcome and no other - until/unless the situation gets better.

Do you """want""" a f... support for i586? Move your bottoms and contribute!
Do you """need""" this or that? Be ready to join and help!

We have a saying here, telling "Armiamoci e partite" I cannot find the
translation in English, you can read it like a person exhorting his
soldiers to pick the weapons and prepare for the battle together, but
then: they will leave for the war and he remains at home peacefully :P

This is to say that [quoting JCL] who does, decides.
It's nice and wise to listen to community, yes, but we are not paid
employees, we are free to decide what to do and what we *cannot* do.
Or also what we simply don't like to do.
It could avoid some burnout too.
I'd rather say also if/when time of decisions about anything will
come, keep an eye on our own interest, that is on what may be/become
source of some money/support/whatever (you got what I mean) for the
present and in perspective for our future.

Sorry if this may look kind of drastic, but it's matter of survival :)
Keep calm and take it easy. it's ready when it's ready.

Let's make our things without any rush, let's take our time to do the
things we like the way we like because we do it for our fun and
enjoyment.
Otherwise people are going to lose their motivation and say Goodbye!.
Often they don't say goodbye even... :)



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Best regards,
Cristina



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