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Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know a thing or two about UI/UX, but tbh it feels very weird to me to butt in somewhere and tell people what to do. Because unfortunately, while I probably could design a good UI, I have no experience in implementing UIs.

I can deal with C++ so I thought I might as well learn Qt, but I couldn't even get Qt Creator or KDevelop to run properly on my distro and didn't find the time to get into it since.

This stuff sadly not that trivial which is probably why you don't find too many people who can do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't even get Qt Creator or KDevelop

Honestly this sounds wild to me, I've never had Qt Creator fail on me. Do you use a distro that doesn't distribute headers with packages?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use KDE on top of Arch and had (very) broken theming and some missing packages I think. I just installed the package, started the thing and hoped for the best tho - I really should look up some guide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch is not intended as a distro for the average user, it's intended for a user who can use the advantages of a basic highly customizable system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Arch, btw