I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might’ve worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn’t now.

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Dave and I are both burned out. I’m not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he’s still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

  • @Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    110 months ago

    I couldn’t even get Qt Creator or KDevelop

    Honestly this sounds wild to me, I’ve never had Qt Creator fail on me. Do you use a distro that doesn’t distribute headers with packages?

    • UnfortunateShort
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      210 months ago

      I use KDE on top of Arch and had (very) broken theming and some missing packages I think. I just installed the package, started the thing and hoped for the best tho - I really should look up some guide

      • KSP Atlas
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        110 months ago

        Arch is not intended as a distro for the average user, it’s intended for a user who can use the advantages of a basic highly customizable system