The forked elephant in the room

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 20/01/2024 8:39 AM, Hors wrote:
> On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 18:56:52 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> On 20/01/2024 7:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I get a constant stream of requests for attention. There's only so 
>>> much I can respond to. Adding another source will likely just make me 
>>> less productive.
>>
>> I can certainly understand that.
>>
>> But all of these giant drama threads are already doing that, not to 
>> mention the loss of productivity of others.
>>
>> That's the problem with leadership, you have to delegate, you can't do 
>> everything yourself.
> 
> i thought this was the definition of open source software, you can do 
> things without needing a leader. Can't community discuss about things 
> without leader, if leader declines it (which is unlikely if most of the 
> people actually want it), then you can always fork.

Yes, but you have missed the very important point. He hasn't got the 
time to see something to decline it.

It is the old worker vs leader conflict. People don't have the time to 
perform both roles at full capability. Trying to keep both at full 
result in doing neither well. Not a good thing.