Steve Holden wrote:
The more I participate, the more I can relate to Eric Raymond's notion of a "gift society". Volunteers give their contributions to the community just because they want to, and they may get recognition in return. But because these are gifts, you can just stop giving them away at any time, and nobody should feel bad about doing so. The community only is only entitled to the contributor saying so - finding somebody else to step in is indeed optional.
I write a few open source projects myself, and I get virtually no feedback or patches on anything. Only complaints if there are bugs :-)
But on the other hand I use a lot of other peoples code without commenting.
I guess that is the way it must work. You take leadership in a small area, and you keep it as long as you care to.
So while it might not feel as a "brotherhood of shared effort" in the single sub-project, it might very well be on a higher level.
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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark
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