[TriLUG] Oracle Tells The White House: Stop Hiring Silicon Valley People & Ditch Open Source | Techdirt

[John Franklin via TriLUG]

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 1:16 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:57 PM, John Franklin via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Sean Korb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've never been able to figure out if Open Source is king of "Good
>>> Enough" or king of "That's not good enough, let's fix it".  They seem
>>> diametrically opposed but at it's core: you must have both.
>> 
>> I’ve seen both kinds of projects.  Dia for a long time was touted as a replacement for Visio, but was not even in the same league.  I admit, I haven’t looked at it in a while.  Maybe it has gotten better.  It seems to me they got to a Good Enough stage and just stopped.
>> 
>> Geary is a promising mail client, if the developers of it could actually get around to writing it.  There is a bug I’ve been following on it for over a year about the accounts dialog being too tall for small screens [1].  It shouldn’t be that hard to fix, but nothing really has happened with it.  There has been some discussion, but no one has gotten to the “lets fix it” stage.
>> 
>      Maybe you will be the one to do the fixing. ;)

Eventually, when I’m not working on my own CMS.  I started working on another patch for Geary to provide a unified Inbox.  I got it started, posted up what I had when I ran out of time, and it’s gone fallow, too.

I’m not sure if it is worth while at this point to learn Vala so I can work on these projects.

> Jokes apart, sometimes I have seen projects where someone actually
> goes through the trouble to find a solution and make a patch just to
> see it rejected without an explanation and the issue becoming a
> wontfix. Not going to say that has or not happened with me...

Yeah, I’ve seen that, too.  It happens from time to time in the Drupal world.  The thing that bothers me the most are bugs that were never fixed, two or three releases have happened in the meantime, and the bug get closed as obsolete, without anyone ever checking to see if it’s still an issue. (Usually, it is.)

>>> I do think the administration would do well to hire more humanities
>>> folks and I am astonished at how undervalued they have been lately WRT
>>> tech.  Even in Open Source, you need both.
>> 
>> That’s the truth.  I’m good at writing code.  I am not good at writing content, and I am awful with graphic design.  Those are two areas where I know I need to get some help as a self-employed independent.
>> 
>      I understand your venting; I keep trying to convince a few
> artists friends of mine to get involved and so far no bites.

If I had enough work to keep them busy, then it would be easy.  I could simply employ them full time.  But, I can’t guarantee the hours, so I don’t hire them.  It’s a trap, I know.

jf
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John Franklin
franklin at elfie.org



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