tortoisesvn.net — "Sometimes people ask what the difference is between the work I do on my paid job during the day, and working on the open source project in my spare time. there are many differences between the two, and those differences decide whether working is fun or just work."
Aug 30, 2006 View in Crawl 4
dcstewiegAug 30, 2006
Rice: Re-read his comment carefully.
Closed AccountAug 30, 2006
Me? Smoking? ...noDude, I just said that.
sdetherAug 30, 2006
The gist of the story and comments seems to be that the dayjob is for money and the OSS programming is for fun and creativity. If that's how you feel, maybe you should look for another job. If my time programming at work was just for the paycheck I would go insane in no time.Sure paycheck work has things you don't like and decisions you don't agree with, but so does every OSS project with more than a handful of contributors.I'm not saying don't work on OSS, by all means do, it's great stuff. But strive to work somewhere where you enjoy your paid programming as well, otherwise you're gonna be a burned out shell in a couple of years.
runesabreAug 30, 2006
I love and use Subversion with the Tortoise SVN GUI every day. Great work!
slashdotislameAug 30, 2006
Pretty much. I'd gladly do 3 or 4 days a week so I could get more time to work on my freeware game. I have no idea what I will do when I finish the spare time project though, apart from play the game!
Closed AccountAug 31, 2006
I love it when the documentation is good.The rest of your post is true as well, although the root cause is the same as mine, that the documentation is simply not a priority. That is a big mistake, as it really keeps OSS and Linux from a broader audience.
wistarAug 31, 2006
This is my point exactly. Only the fun stuff gets written.