I was also commenting and don't generally on anything much more involved so
any snarkiness included myself which should make things better.
Exactly the problem. Comment was mostly triggered due to me looking at a
problem with a proprietary CD-ROM driver again tonight that I posted a few
months ago where the only comment has been from the fellow author. There the
problem was the block layer blowing up and given that it seems unlikely that
this wouldn't be a problem inside the newbie-driver itself, that the block
part of it was actually really small and people said they'd look at it, the
subsequent thundering silence still annoys me.
Ofcourse, now it seems the kernel itself has moved on enough that the driver
doesn't work at _all_ anymore and I at the moment lack the time to spend the
required hours googling around trying to find out what the heck changed out
from under me so that I might get it to at least do what it already did do.
Hey, I don't actually know and maybe I'm just wrong but I have the feeling
that over the last 1 or 2 years most new developers seem to be either people
that are payed to be so, perhaps in the form of graduation, or janitors. The
kernel is much, much more complex than even only a few years ago and at the
same time the number of knowledgeable developers who'll do something other
than their own thing and otherwise just wait around for something perfect to
merge seems to be approaching zero.
That is -- I do not feel that the current developer base is expending overly
many efforts to appear welcoming.
Please feel free to do the open-source thing and argue that's actually an
advantage (there we have that snarkiness again...) or otherwise ignore me.
I'll just sit here and be grumpy anyway. Might be better after a good
night's sleep...
Rene.
-
