On 26/10/16 14:53, Dale Henrichs wrote:

On 10/26/16 12:13 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna C��rdenas wrote:

Hi,

On the issue of contributing to Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects, I have been reading recently Nadia Eghbal and her analysis that confirm that most FLOSS projects are done by individuals and small teams, which is contrary to the bazaar narrative. This comic shows the point:

and you can find more details here: https://medium.com/@nayafia/what-success-really-looks-like-in-open-source-2dd1facaf91c#.e360z53sf

After skimming the actual article and finding that the points made in the article are valid I would have wished that the right panel in the cartoon had said "one more pull request before going to bed" since that is closer to what the article is about ... an active, community that contributes is also an important component and something that Pharo/Smalltalk community does indeed have.

Dale

I think that the comic reflects properly the main concern of Nadia and her research: sustainability of FLOSS, because we have more the right panel: lonely developers solving tickets instead of getting pull request. May be we can break the spell in some fashion in a community and environment like this. Time will tell.

Cheers,

Offray