I'm a netbeans user for 3 years now. I want to be more than a take-all-and-give-nothing-back user. I even tried once (only once though). I downloaded the sources and tried to build netbeans from sources.
The way I did it must have been wrong. I built all, OutOfMemory every now and then during a week. Gave up pretty quick. Weak user.
To have users like me contribute means that an expert spend time advising and reviewing my changesets. During this time he could actually solve N-fold more bugs. And that effort MAY be worth it, most probably won't.
Basically, if there more than one like me, community contribution is meant to be a failure.
What I would do to get over being a failure: If an expert is willing to tutor me and help me become a netbeans contributor, when I'm doing well I will tutor two other new-comers.
It's not what I think the netbeans team should do, it's what I would do.
Throwing links at me is not considered tutoring. Throwing links and listening, correcting and suggesting work packages to me is.
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I'm a netbeans user for 3 years now. I want to be more than a take-all-and-give-nothing-back user. I even tried once (only once though). I downloaded the sources and tried to build netbeans from sources. The way I did it must have been wrong. I built all, OutOfMemory every now and then during a week. Gave up pretty quick. Weak user. To have users like me contribute means that an expert spend time advising and reviewing my changesets. During this time he could actually solve N-fold more bugs. And that effort MAY be worth it, most probably won't. Basically, if there more than one like me, community contribution is meant to be a failure. What I would do to get over being a failure: If an expert is willing to tutor me and help me become a netbeans contributor, when I'm doing well I will tutor two other new-comers. It's not what I think the netbeans team should do, it's what I would do. Throwing links at me is not considered tutoring. Throwing links and listening, correcting and suggesting work packages to me is.
--cug 17:13, 21 October 2010 (CEST)