I've not done much actual work for a couple days; just a few corrections to my printing summit notes. Nearly all were misremembered names; it just goes to show how awful I am with people...
The weekend's BBQ was rainy. Yet another useful person at work is leaping; my group is now down to a frightenly low clue level.
mrorganic wrote:
...this means that lots of the packet monkeys only want to work on high-profile, high-visibility stuff. Boring things like debugging, regression testing, and documentation languish because they don't "pay" as well.I beg to differ. The free software documentation community has a great many contributors. Excellent documentation contributions to free software are every bit as valuable as code; even Advogato's web of merit recognizes this. Free software tends to be debugged by users (for better or worse), and tends to have rather less regression testing, except for critical apps where it's worth the effort to construct a test suite (gcc, Perl, etc come to mind). That this is different from other software development models is unimportant; it works for us, so that's the way it is.