While I plowed through a lot of backlog the past several days, I still have some 120 messages piled deep.
That work did result in a number of improvements, culminating in a rather
rushed release of version 5.20150327 today, to fix a regression affecting
git annex sync when using the standalone linux tarballs. Unfortunately, I
then had to update those tarballs a second time after the release
as the first fix was incomplete.
And, I'm feeling super stressed out. At this point, I think I should step away until the end of the month. Unfortunately, this will mean more backlog later. Including lots of noise and hand-holding that I just don't seem to have time for if I want to continue making forward progress.
Maybe I'll think of a way to deal with it while I'm away. Currently, all I have is that I may have to start ignoring irc and the forum, and de-prioritizing bug reports that don't have either a working reproduction recipe or multiple independent confirmations that it's a real bug.
" and de-prioritizing bug reports that don't have either a working reproduction recipe or multiple independent confirmations that it's a real bug."
This seems quite reasonable. Hope you get a little downtime to relax.
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!
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
docsubdirectory of the current git repo, and at least a third of the data is injected in the forum:$ 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: 8711I 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...).
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 git-annex-related action over on the SuperUser Stack Exchage, though the actual
git-annextag seems to only have been used onceEchoing #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.