devblog/day 268 stressed outgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_268_stressed_out/git-annexikiwiki2015-03-31T01:09:20Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_268_stressed_out/comment_1_d28352c9fbc988ece19688a687d30ffe/Kenneth2015-03-28T03:36:15Z2015-03-28T03:36:15Z
<p>" and de-prioritizing bug reports that don't have either a working reproduction recipe or multiple independent confirmations that it's a real bug."</p>
<p>This seems quite reasonable. Hope you get a little downtime to relax.</p>
You should take a breakhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_268_stressed_out/comment_2_f7b04b2e96f0fc7530f1c21ccfcfb0f9/Mica2015-03-29T20:37:16Z2015-03-29T20:37:16Z
By all means, take a break Joey!
take care and ideashttp://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_268_stressed_out/comment_3_0eb4c17d35fba9db6a7446a5f253ace9/anarcat2015-03-30T16:26:05Z2015-03-30T16:26:05Z
<p>we not careful enough with ourselves and with each other... i can only send my warmest support for your self-imposed break, i should probably have done that myself a few times, and never had the lucidity to do it soon enough... so yeah, break time, and enjoy spring! <img src="http://git-annex.branchable.com/smileys/smile.png" alt=":)" /></p>
<p>git-annex has grown in leaps and bounds in the last year, and it looks like it's getting more and more the traction it deserves. that means a lot more support requests and yes, a lot more noise in the forums and issue queues. in my experience, having the core devs step away from the support forums isn't necessarily a bad thing: it will leave some room for other people to step up and start cooking up their own answers. i did a very quick analysis of the <code>doc</code> subdirectory of the current git repo, and at least a third of the data is injected in the forum:</p>
<pre>
$ ncdu doc/
[...]
13,0MiB 3 270 [##########] /forum
10,4MiB 2 243 [######## ] /bugs
4,4MiB 964 [### ] /design
2,2MiB 550 [# ] /todo
1,6MiB 398 [# ] /devblog
1,5MiB 348 [# ] /tips
[...]
Total disk usage: 38,3MiB Apparent size: 15,4MiB Items: 8711
</pre>
<p>I wonder if moving this out of the wiki (to, say, a mailing list or Stack-exchange like Q&A site) would be helpful? It seems there is a significant amount of FAQ and divergence from topic on the forum posts... trying another tool may be helpful here (but I know how annoying and crazy this sounds at first...).</p>
SuperUserhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_268_stressed_out/comment_4_fecf179be92c3a3e25f4a47fcea6b6ec/g2015-03-31T01:09:20Z2015-03-31T01:09:20Z
<p>Totally agree that the main developers, and especially you, Joey, shouldn't have to be handling most of the support you are now. There's already a reasonable amount of <a href="http://superuser.com/search?q=git-annex">git-annex-related action over on the SuperUser Stack Exchage</a>, though the actual <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/git-annex"><code>git-annex</code> tag seems to only have been used once</a></p>
<p>Echoing #3, it does seem like it would make sense to move more of the basic support work over there from the forum. For this sort of Q&A, I find Stack Exchange a bit better structured, a little harder to miss past questions before re-posting, and like that it has a built-in community of people to help answer.</p>