Data wrangler, software engineer, systems programmer, cyclist. Unix (mostly Solaris) for aeons. I talk C, Python, SQL, Performance, Java, Kafka and Makefiles.
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Education
BA (Mathematics, Modern History), University of Queensland
Your list of blockers is correct (only missing the community aspect that @rhymes
mentions). I've observed this in quite a few different projects over the years, too, both as somebody already working on the project (OpenSolaris amongst others) and as somebody wanting to get involved.
My most recent not-my-project submission was a new feature in Nikola ( github.com/getnikola/nikola/issues...) which enabled both captions and ordering of pictures in a gallery. A feature which I wanted, so I scratched that itch. It took me a few iterations to get it all ready for integration. By the time I made that PR I had many years of software engineering experience in both C and Python, and a lot of confidence in my skills (both writing code and interacting with people).
The first change request I submitted was for Solaris 8 (I worked for Sun at the time), to fix a small bug in the mpt driver (SAS hba). I was so nervous. Perhaps since this was a commercial software operation and all the contributors had been deemed by mgmt to be good enough (hey, they hired us, right?) I didn't feel quite as nervous as when I offered a changeset to the darktable.org project to make that build on Solaris.
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Your list of blockers is correct (only missing the community aspect that @rhymes mentions). I've observed this in quite a few different projects over the years, too, both as somebody already working on the project (OpenSolaris amongst others) and as somebody wanting to get involved.
My most recent not-my-project submission was a new feature in Nikola ( github.com/getnikola/nikola/issues...) which enabled both captions and ordering of pictures in a gallery. A feature which I wanted, so I scratched that itch. It took me a few iterations to get it all ready for integration. By the time I made that PR I had many years of software engineering experience in both C and Python, and a lot of confidence in my skills (both writing code and interacting with people).
The first change request I submitted was for Solaris 8 (I worked for Sun at the time), to fix a small bug in the
mpt
driver (SAS hba). I was so nervous. Perhaps since this was a commercial software operation and all the contributors had been deemed by mgmt to be good enough (hey, they hired us, right?) I didn't feel quite as nervous as when I offered a changeset to thedarktable.org
project to make that build on Solaris.