Re: Concerns about community contributor support

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>]

Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.online> writes:
>
>>> Hmmm, what constitutes noise?
>>>
>> Good question.  I suppose like most words the meaning changes 
>> over time.  Early
>> on, posts along the lines of "Wouldn't it be cool if Org mode 
>> would do this?"
>> were given more space than they seem to be today.  Tim Cross 
>> points out a
>> project trajectory that appears to be common and would explain 
>> why.  At a more
>> concrete level, I can offer several of my posts to the list :)
>
> Follow up: What should be the response to "noise", because I 
> don't think
> it should be a cold shoulder.
>
Agreed.  I'm trying to put myself in the maintainers' shoes.  They 
volunteer lots of highly skilled time, which I admire greatly.  I 
can imagine a situation where a patch falls outside a maintainer's 
interest and they have difficulty finding the time to understand 
it and offer a meaningful critique.

Historical note: when Carsten took his leave and announced Bastien 
would maintain Org mode, I jumped in noisily to suggest that a 
committee approach might be better.  I couldn't imagine a world 
with two Carstens!  It appears there is a committee of sorts now, 
though I'm in the dark how it is organized.  Assuming there is a 
committee, perhaps addition of an Initial Patch Reviewer might be 
a good idea?

All the best,
Tom

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