Recent events have made me realise something. In the early days, when PieFed was tiny (it’s still tiny I guess) me being really engaged with the community was a huge strength. I knew immediately what was going on and could release a fix/change really fast and people loved that. In contrast it made the other […]
First off, thank you for creating an excellent system, it’s been much appreciated. I’ve been one of those users with a feature request, and I was struck by both how fast and cheerfully you addressed it, but also by how much of a toll that level of responsiveness must have taken on you.
Well done for realising you need to step back a bit before it broke you completely, not all manage that. From experience, putting in proper channels for feature requests, issue reports, and even general communications, can make a huge difference to the stress of managing a big project, and give you a lot more control over how much you’re dealing with, rather than trying to drink from the firehose that the internet can be. I hope it works for you, and you can go on enjoying working on it.
As you step back from the front line a bit, could you allow others to help in both dealing with public interactions and even the development? I’ve noticed that Piefed seems to be a one-man project, and that shows through in some places. Bringing in a few more people might help ease the load, bring new perspectives, and even avoid some of the more contentious issues that have come up.
There are a couple dedicated others who assist with ‘help’ and ‘meta’ stuff, and also have some involvement in the core project, possibly on the bug-testing side, I’m not sure. Snoopy, Skavau, WBC wjs018, travis-jeans I’m thinking?
But yeah, more helpers in the right places couldn’t hurt!
Over the past six months, rimu has ~4X more commits to the project than I do, and then it is a steep drop off from there (other than a ton of individual css fixes by travis-jeans). So, it is not entirely a one person show, but it mostly is. Part of that is that rimu is just really quick. We will talk over an idea, and then he will implement it faster than I can even make the git branch.
First off, thank you for creating an excellent system, it’s been much appreciated. I’ve been one of those users with a feature request, and I was struck by both how fast and cheerfully you addressed it, but also by how much of a toll that level of responsiveness must have taken on you.
Well done for realising you need to step back a bit before it broke you completely, not all manage that. From experience, putting in proper channels for feature requests, issue reports, and even general communications, can make a huge difference to the stress of managing a big project, and give you a lot more control over how much you’re dealing with, rather than trying to drink from the firehose that the internet can be. I hope it works for you, and you can go on enjoying working on it.
As you step back from the front line a bit, could you allow others to help in both dealing with public interactions and even the development? I’ve noticed that Piefed seems to be a one-man project, and that shows through in some places. Bringing in a few more people might help ease the load, bring new perspectives, and even avoid some of the more contentious issues that have come up.
There are a couple dedicated others who assist with ‘help’ and ‘meta’ stuff, and also have some involvement in the core project, possibly on the bug-testing side, I’m not sure. Snoopy, Skavau,
WBCwjs018, travis-jeans I’m thinking?But yeah, more helpers in the right places couldn’t hurt!
Over the past six months, rimu has ~4X more commits to the project than I do, and then it is a steep drop off from there (other than a ton of individual css fixes by travis-jeans). So, it is not entirely a one person show, but it mostly is. Part of that is that rimu is just really quick. We will talk over an idea, and then he will implement it faster than I can even make the git branch.
Gotcha; thanks for clarifying.
Pardon for butchering your handle, above. It’s been fixed.
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