[indiana-discuss] FOX 20070926wed binary pkg release and mercurial merge in few hours

[Martin Bochnig]

> I want to publicly thank you for the work that is
> obviously going into 
> this, on your part.

I thank _you_.

> The community *IS* appreciative, even if it may
> sometimes not seem to be 
> so.
> 
> --elijah

No, that's not true.
"The community" (like most social networks in general) gives much more credit to folks, who have ten new random whateverYouLike ideas every day and who invest lots of time in writing "cool" and popular messages, rather than writing or fixing something boring that could be compiled and used (that's why populists tend to be so popular, rather than the more serious men).
{This is dedicated to a former alleged "friend" of mine who found it necessary to tell me again and again how poor the quality of my written English was (luckily enough didn't he hear me speaking). And that I didn't write like a "native" (that's a pity, I'm probably not even considered a human being now...?). He even suggested he first wanted to test my English language skills (via phone) before allowing me to come to the summit. He also pointed out that this was going to become an Indiana-summit, rather than an OpenSolaris one (in contrast to the initial announcement and link-description). Okay, thats great, no problem. Good. 
But: Also that I shouldn't talk too much about the stuff I'm doing (Xorg, MartUX, [qemu]), because it would be OT. Aha!
The experiences mentioned above are personal crap. True. But still not OT: This person sometimes behaves like he was THE ONE best suited to represent the entire OpenSolaris project. That's anyways the impression that I get when reading more and more of his daily list mails. As I see his postings all the time [plus when I think about how much support he gets], it just annoys me.}

But enough of that personal stuff, beyond myself:

Anyone: Please understand that it isn't too easy for outside (Non-Sun) contributors to contribute in a full-time manner. YOU (Sunnies) have a premium-paid job, free $$$training, holidays, weekends, probably many further sexy things like a free car or free foo. Plus still enough time to hang in IRC all afternoon. A non-sunny has what he has, or rather less than what he has had before. And the more he contributes, the less he will have. Like a blood donor.
Could it be that this might be one of the stoppers that prevented more code contributors to join the project?

If I hadn't deep-red loans all over the place (!), on all my accounts and cards [plus rich parents, if somethings gets really dramatic], I probably had not even that tiny apartment anymore. This reminds me of all the complaints concerning unpaid bills a few meters away.
It cannot be that even key persons like Roland Mainz don't even get a free developer workstation (not even borrowed from Sun or whomever), but have to take an ancient Ultra5 where even an incremental ksh93 rebuild (not to talk about ON or Xorg) takes ages. I, as outside contributor, really don't ask for a "donation". Just for an underoaid half-time job. Paid 40% of what a Mexican room-cleaner would get. I had staed this again and again. But nobody is listening. I think such a contract would help some more, not only me. Plus Sun would clearly benefit from that, too. I assume many of you cannot even imagine what I'm talking about.

But you know how the world goes: The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The divide etc. But really: Sun employees furthermore get all the credits and grants, in many cases precisely for doing their respective job(s).

My two nickels ...
Think what you want, that's how I have to see it.
My everyday reality.

BTW, I decided to add a few more things into the FOX merge, based on Moinak's pkgdefs, Makefiles and subdirs. I still didn't make a break, no sleep. But I know, nobody cares about SPARC on the desktop. So then.
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