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Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 1 year ago by liori@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've said this previously, and I'll say it again: we're severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I've learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There's enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might've worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn't now.

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Dave and I are both burned out. I'm not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he's still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 172 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (55 children)

This problem is pretty common across most parts of the Linux space. Everyone wants to volunteer coding work, which is great, but not what's desperately needed right now.

The Linux community needs more than programmers, or else it will consist only of programmers. We need UI/UX experts, or we'll never have the simplicity and ease of use of iOS. We need accessibility designers or we'll never match up to the accessibility of MacOS. We need graphic designers and artists or we'll never look as good as Windows 11. We need PR professionals and marketing experts or we'll never be as notable as the Windows XP startup sound.

We don't have enough volunteers that fit into these categories. The next best thing you can do is contribute your money so that your favourite project can hire the people they need.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't there some kind of volunteer-project market with easy access?

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's https://bountysource.com/ or https://www.vamp.sh/

Bound to specific problems and limited to projects willing to pay money.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it just me or does vamp.sh fail with an error on firefox?

[–] em2@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Worked for a second before it threw me an error.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's failing because it can't connect to some crypto web3 bullshit... It's probably best if it doesn't load tbh.

And Bountysource is also dead crypto shit. See: https://github.com/bountysource/core/issues/1586

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