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.

  • heeplr@feddit.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    use open source software. whenever you see potential to improve, open an issue with detailed explaination.

    try to solve the problem yourself. send pull requests. adapt them according to instructions by devs. when they’re good, the will get merged.

    if you use the software a lot, contribute whenever you think something is needed.