Generality creep

[bachmeier]

On Sunday, 31 March 2019 at 12:03:30 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:

> I have to say I find the posts you have made the last few days 
> to be very open and containing a lot of truth. It is very 
> refreshing and inspiring to read.

At the risk of being negative, I had the opposite reaction after 
reading his posts. It is clear that he has no interest in being 
the leader of an open source project. He doesn't want to waste 
his time with average programmers, he only wants to spend his 
time working with the best of the best (by some metric) software 
engineers.

That's his option, of course, but it's as welcoming to new 
contributors as a rattlesnake pit (on par with Linus but using 
better language). An open source project leader needs to find 
ways to bring in new contributors, including some who are below 
average, and help them find a way to contribute. There needs to 
be an interest/willingness to think about and participate in all 
areas of the project, even non-elite things like documentation, 
newbie guides, tools, and marketing the language.

Open source leader and working on a narrow set of technical 
issues (like pounding out designs of some sort with 
best-of-the-best software engineers) have little overlap.

> I hope you can find your way again and do what you do best.

So do I, and he should work on the things that interest him, 
rather than trying to run an open source project.