mc^2 news (august 2016)
Yury V. Zaytsev
yury at shurup.com
Thu Aug 18 19:00:31 UTC 2016
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, denisgolovan wrote:
> But why not try some form of crowd-funding / bounty-hunting?
I can only speak for myself and my experience is that with most successful
crowd-funding projects, maintainers end up getting paid several times
lower wages than the market rates, and this income is unstable (that is,
no indications whatsoever as to what happens when the money from the
campaign runs out). In exchange for that, however, they get to work on an
exciting open source project of their own choosing and enjoy flexible
working times.
I have a lot of respect for the engineers who do go for this (I know some,
and they are really seriously brilliant), but, very unfortunately, this is
not a compromise that I'm personally prepared to accept.
Besides, I don't even want to work on mc all day long :-) It's a great
hobby project for a few days per week, but that's about it. So, my
personal dream would be to find an employer who is ready to sponsor 1/2
days per week of open source work (the more, the better ;-) ), such that I
could put part of this time towards mc, but on a regular basis (i.e.
weekly) rather than ad hoc, and still enjoy all the perks of not being
"self-employed"; how this pans out we shall see in the near future.
Now, yet again, this is just my personal view of things...
> I mean to structure those 500+ bugs/features ("future" milestone) in
> some meaningful way + put some estimates(weeks, dollars)/difficulty for
> them and try to pursue people on popular Linux forums for support.
If you are willing to invest some serious effort into pulling out
something like that, let me know if there is anything I could reasonably
help you with.
In my personal view of the situation, however, then the biggest problem
with mc codebase today is the abysmal state of test coverage, which makes
maintenance a gamble and demands extreme efforts to review patches.
Before this problem is addressed, I'm not very positive about soliciting
massive contributions, which will end up rotting on the Trac waiting for
code reviews and rewrites... that might never come.
--
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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