Comments on: And here it comes… http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/10/01/and-here-it-comes/ A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sandra R http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/10/01/and-here-it-comes/comment-page-1/#comment-67460 Sandra R Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:02:47 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/?p=403#comment-67460 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: Sujith H http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/10/01/and-here-it-comes/comment-page-1/#comment-66607 Sujith H Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:45:22 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/?p=403#comment-66607 Being a new developer to the project CHDK(Canon Hack Development Kit), it would surely make me think to submit my topic to the foss.in team. I had made 2 patches of which, one of them is submitted and will enter the trunk as soon as possible(thats what the developer told me!!!) and the other patch is yet to be submitted. Anyway this time I cannot see any newbies. But fortunately I am planning to conduct a BOF and of-course hack my cam, add more and more features and fix more bugs, with the limited time I have!!! Being a new developer to the project CHDK(Canon Hack Development Kit), it would surely make me think to submit my topic to the foss.in team. I had made 2 patches of which, one of them is submitted and will enter the trunk as soon as possible(thats what the developer told me!!!) and the other patch is yet to be submitted. Anyway this time I cannot see any newbies. But fortunately I am planning to conduct a BOF and of-course hack my cam, add more and more features and fix more bugs, with the limited time I have!!!

]]> By: Rakesh Pandit http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/10/01/and-here-it-comes/comment-page-1/#comment-66598 Rakesh Pandit Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:52:40 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/?p=403#comment-66598 Hat's off to Foss Team Just this snippet makes me bit unhappy, --- In foss-in@yahoogroups.com, Atul Chitnis wrote: [..] > And the bottom line is that while there was a measureable increase in > people getting involved in FOSS contribution, the quality left a lot to be > desired. Most new contributors focused only on low hanging fruit, such as > translations, and distro-specific packaging. If people got involved with > code, it was usually bug fixes and code maintenance. > It was too harsh remark in my view calling translations and distro specific packaging a low hanging fruit. It is all relative. Even calling contributions to a specific project where coding is also very straight forward can be called as low hanging fruit. For example maintaining httpd server, emacs, gtk is not easy job. Packaging involves very very complex tasks sometime. But then there are very easy packages also. Similar is the case with translations or code contributions. So, all in all it is very relative. What say? Hat’s off to Foss Team

Just this snippet makes me bit unhappy,

— In foss-in@yahoogroups.com, Atul Chitnis wrote:
[..]
> And the bottom line is that while there was a measureable increase in
> people getting involved in FOSS contribution, the quality left a lot to be
> desired. Most new contributors focused only on low hanging fruit, such as
> translations, and distro-specific packaging. If people got involved with
> code, it was usually bug fixes and code maintenance.
>

It was too harsh remark in my view calling translations and distro specific packaging a low hanging fruit.

It is all relative. Even calling contributions to a specific project where coding is also very straight forward can be called as low hanging fruit.

For example maintaining httpd server, emacs, gtk is not easy job. Packaging involves very very complex tasks sometime. But then there are very easy packages also.

Similar is the case with translations or code contributions.

So, all in all it is very relative.

What say?

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