On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: > This seems to be the question running around the blogosphere for > several projects. And I would like to ask all people that read this > list but hardly say or do anything. > > What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC?
The lack of time, for the most part. For GCC there are other reasons as well: - the paperwork. I cannot just submit a patch if I feel like it. - not easy to find something to contribute. Stuff that is either not interesting to me, or too difficult for me to easily get into. GCC is a mature project, so there aren't much 'holes to fill' (at first sight, for a beginner). - the programming language. I don't have any experience with C, I only know some things about it because it's a subset of C++. And I'm also watching other projects. I cannot contribute to all. Well, actually I don't contribute to any project right now. Since I started programming for my day job I don't really feel like programming in the evenings or weekends anymore. Before that I spent most of my free time working on my own project, my programming language. But now I don't even have time to work on that anymore.
