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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 12:41pm on 02/04/2007
Meritocracy is fine, but the attitude of many open source people is far from helpful, and most projects don't have a way to introduce people to a project in a sensible fashion (like getting people to write test cases, or having more experienced developers mentor new project members) so it's often a case of sink or swim.

It's not just a gender issue either, the whole, "if there's a bug then you can fix it, because you've got the source," thing only really works if already pretty familiar with the source or you've got time to go and understand it properly. For most people neither of those is going to be true.
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posted by [identity profile] naath.livejournal.com at 12:47pm on 02/04/2007
Er, but if you don't want to put in the time to understand it... just where do you expect to fit in in a community for fixing it?

(disclaimer: I'm far far too lazy to engage in such time intensive hobbies, maybe I'd find I'm too stupid to do them well - I don't know, but I'm not about to blame other people for my laziness (differing time priorities) and/or stupidity)
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 01:06pm on 02/04/2007
The difference in time required to contribute usefully to a project with some help in getting started, and contributing usefully with no help at all is huge. I wouldn't expect somebody at work to sit down and start writing test cases without at least a quick talk through the architecture, and the expectation that they'll write simple ones to start with and will need to ask lots of 'stupid' questions.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:27pm on 02/04/2007
Of course, not all men are loud and crap. Just the loud, crap ones :-)
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