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If it feels good do it...
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 05/May/2003, @01:21
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> The work with Karamba felt more like a regular job than the fun hobby I wanted it to be.
Hmmm? It was really fun at first and then... I remember that fun feeling. Imagine how I felt when my partners left the project and I had never previously coded C++. Fun? There was the politics and the nasty emails... Then a few months later I lost my mom. In the process of learning the QT/KDE APIs and our code base I was fortunate to find Andras. Quanta has become very popular. I don't think it gained popularity quite as fast as karamba. At least there were not as many users back then. Currently Andras works on it full time, there are many contributors and it eats huge blocks of my time. Our motivations are different.
Along the way I found something else that felt really good. It was the positive feedback from the community.I started to believe that what we were doing had to be done because it needed to be done, and if not us than who? I'm not knocking the author's position of coding for a fun hobby. I'm just saying that in spite of the challenges there are other rewards. In the end there has to be someone at the helm of an open source project or it dies, despite popular mythology about never losing the source. Source gets outdated fast around here.
BTW I'm using Karamba and I really like it and recommend it. I wrote a Kommander dialog to switch the cities I get the weather for. ;-) |
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