• Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
      159·
      1 year ago

      We’re probably hitting close to the all-time high of unread notifications on github… I’m at 1752 rn, only watching lemmy projects.

      It does feel like I’ve become the personal issue tracker for a few thousand people all the sudden. 99% of ppl are nice, but there’s always someone demanding free labor to fix their pet issue, while offering to do none of the work themselves, and making ultimatums that they won’t use your software until it gets added.

      It’s like okay then??? I’m not selling a product, so I don’t care. I’ve essentially set up a free cookie stand and they’re complaining at me that I don’t have rainbow sprinkles.

      • BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.orgEnglish
        37·
        1 year ago

        First off, thank you for working on improving lemmy, it is greatly appreciated. How does one go about helping work on lemmy? I’m a software engineer myself, and I’m looking to provide help during down of my free time. I’m not the most familiar in Rust, but it’s on my summer bucket list

        • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
          36·
          1 year ago

          No probs! The best way to get started (after you’ve learned some rust), would be to find a smaller issue or feature you’d like, and then comment on that issue, or in our dev matrix chat, if you need any help. We appreciate any help we can get on improving the code.

      • Resonosity@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for making this software. It’s really opened my eyes about what the internet could be in the future, and how it really mirrors real life in many ways. Take your time, I’m sure you (and any other dev) will knock out the big issues with the software if they ever pop up. The small stuff can wait

      • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I’m a backend dev of a little over a year of experience in Python. I’ve started teaching myself Rust so that I can make mod tools and solve issues that bother me.

      • renlok@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        This is the reason I ended up hating my old open source projects. It’s not enough you give people something for free some people just always demand more.

        But awesome work with lemmy hopefully working on it doesn’t wear you down too much and you get some enjoyment from it still.

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I wonder if making a separate bug-reporting place and having some people sort them to lessen the load might be helpful. Im a very newbie programmer and know nothing in rust but still want to help out, and sorting through bugreports seems like something that might be helpful, and need minimal rust experience, just sorting individual requests into piles of same problems to lessen the sorting needing to be done by those who can actually work on fixing the bugs.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Actually, to be fair, they’re being paid salaries to work on Lemmy lol

      Though the 0.18.0 update was quite nice and solved a lot of issues I had, so it’s definitely cool to see how well it’s progressing.

          • WhyIDie@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            looked into it some, looks like it’s being funded by the same initiative that funded Tor and WireGuard

              • WhyIDie@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                unless I’m missing something, I thought both Tor and WireGuard are open source. I’m also seeing on their page that they require whatever they’re funding for that initiative to be open source. Kinda hard for dark money to have any of the usual dark money effects when there’s that much transparency and freedom in the final products. Again, I could be missing something.

  • Ivan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I thought that in such case I acomplished success as open source developer: someone actually like my software enough to use it

    • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah honestly it has been really cool for me seeing something I made in the wild- and I haven’t even made that big of projects

  • Wren 🪐@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Literally anytime I send my dad (retired IT) a script I’ve been working on and he sends it back with the equivalent to red pen corrections on a paper / telling me all the various avenues of exception handling I need to add

    • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      “I don’t need to comment this code at all, it’s pretty self-explanatory, I’ll remember this 100% no problem.”

      Scene cut:

      Me six months later, staring blankly at the code like the monkeys & The Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, desperately trying to unravel the workings of my ADHD brain and just exactly why the seemingly innocent and innocuous-looking function named “dontFuckingTouchThis” is the lynchpin preventing the whole goddamned thing from falling over and going tits-up.