Speaking only for myself, I feel like it's always been a plan of mine to go back to working on Dancer2 in earnest. The fact of the matter is I don't get to use Dancer2 nowadays and this year had been... Hmm... catastrophic in many ways. Then again, for many years of working on Dancer2, I wasn't using it yet, so who knows. I still have multiple issues on my TODO list involving Dancer2 and I've contributed two articles for the Advent Calendar this year.

I'm hoping 2021 will be a better, more relaxed year and we could go back to things we enjoy. To me, that would include hacking on Dancer2.

The set of accumulating tickets might warrant a fun hacking sprint. I would love to host a day-long one over Zoom with breaks for talks. Dancer2 had always been the most lovely community (or sub-community?) I've had the pleasure to be in.




On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 7:50 PM Yanick Champoux <yanick@babyl.ca> wrote:
On 2020-12-21 10:27 a.m., Juan José 'Peco' San Martín wrote:
> I hope the Core developers will raise their hands if they feel they
> can't spend enough time on the project. It's definitely not an easy year


I am not actively working on Dancer these days, but I feel the need to
raise my hand and just point out that

1. yes, it's been a heck of a crazy year. As far as I can say, anybody
who managed to spend any meaningful period of time since March doing
anything but rocking back and forth under a running shower are bloody
heroes with more fortitude than I have.

2. every time the 'why the project isn't more active?' discussion comes
around, I want to point out that all of the people working on Dancer (as
far as I know) are doing it in their spare time. I know that often the
question is not born out of malice, but for the people working on the
project, it comes out as "oh, you're giving out stuff for free. But how
come you're not giving more?"

As I said, very often it's asked with the best intents. But it is
soul-crushing. If I can recommend anything, in those scenarios I think
it's more constructive to

1. explicitly thank the maintainers for the work they are already doing
/ have done in the past. You'd be surprised how often projects are met
with long, looooooong stretches of absolute silence, only interspersed
with occasionals "that's broken, fix it!".

2. is it a project your company rely on to make money? Then have them
contribute.

3. thank the maintainers, for they are the little fairies making your
lives easier.

4. if you are a developer who want to see something happens in the
project, roll up your sleeves and pitch in. Sometimes it's... not
possible because the bottleneck exists somewhere else. In those cases?
:look right: ... :look left: :whisper: fork the project and go wild.

5. don't forget to thank the maintainers, if for no reason that there is
a chance that the next time they roll their eyes to the sky and shout
"why do I even bother?" to the heavens, this is the memory that will
stop them from giving up and running to the desert to become hermits.


*ahem* Soapbox speech ending. We can now resume our regular program.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot:

A big thanks to all the Dancer crew. I miss working on the project, and
I miss you peeps. <3


Seasonal joy,
`/anick
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