On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 09:20:15AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 09:11:27AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> > Why is their time more valuable than mine?
>
> Why do you think that your time is more valuable than theirs?
I think my time is more valuable than others because there are many
more people clamoring for attention. If we're considering the number
of users of e2fsprogs/ext4, they outnumber me millions to one. As a
result, I *expect* that people who ask me to review their code do
things to make it easier for me. Otherwise, things just don't scale.
And no, team maintenance doesn't help; that just make it be millions
to three, and then you have the communications overhead between the
co-maintainers.
We're all volunteers; and I think people who are trying to demand that
volunteers do things *their* way is just being counter-productive. As
a volunteer, I have a very simple answer to people who are demanding
that I do things differently from they way I want: No.
- Ted
