On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 at 01:00, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote about "Re: The...":
> > Asking for enhancements, bug fixes, new features, etc. is not a
> > contribution. Asking for them to be included with the package
> > because you have already written, tested, debugged, and proven
> > it works IS contributing.
>
> Perhaps it's because of what I do for a living -- product management --
> but I truly believe asking for features, AND helping to determine if they
> would be popular and/or beneficial and to whom, *IS* a major contribution.
I happen to agree. And I've proved it with the last of the Mj1 versions
that Jason worked on.
Those versions of Mj1 that Jason worked on had lots of idea contributions
from me. In fact, the way Mj1 allows messages to be approved was the fruit
of my hand. No, not my code -- that was Jason's -- but what Jason had in
front of him while he was coding.
> > I feel sympathy for those that won't contribute. (notice I did not say
> > can't) Mostly because they will always be the leeches that I used to
> > be.
Why answering questions, even if you don't contribute code or ideas, isn't
considered contributing is beyond me.
Certainly tech support, even in open source projects, is very
important. Without it you're writing code with no users besides
yourself (and when it comes to open source the whole idea is to have
users, and hence contributors, besides yourself).
--
Brock Rozen brozen@torah.org
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