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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] 6 points 1 year ago

Ugh, Gnome 3... I used to be all in on Gnome, then went to Mate after the Gnome Shell days. Last year I came full circle to KDE and for whatever reasons I had to dislike it in the past, KDE Plasma is a damn good environment these days.

Gnome used to be better for being simple and effective. Now you have to tweak it so much to get what you want, you might as well go with KDE.

Qt feels more dominant in the cross platform space these days too, with more new projects choosing Qt over GTK