I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might’ve worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn’t now.

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Dave and I are both burned out. I’m not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he’s still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    How does someone like me, a PhD candidate who has a background in Human-Computer Interaction, contribute?

    Start a blog where you get users to try and complete a task on a stock Linux install, and write about it.

    “Given a stock Debian XFCE install, users were tasked to connect their Airpods pro. Here’s what happened”

    (Even doing this for Lemmy, I.e. “find a community about birds”, would be insanely helpful)

    A blog like this would help give focus for developers on what needs to be improved, in every part of the stack!