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Revision as of 22:30, 9 December 2006
Patching FOSS in India
Solving the fundamental structural problem of the free software movement in India
A multilog of developers, evangelists and students
The discussion was started in the panel discussion on '10 years of linux in India' on day 2 of FOSS.IN and continued on day 3 with a BoF on 'Patching FOSS in India'.
BoF details
Day 3 (26 Nov 2006) 2:00 pm
Moderators: Thaths/Fred
Bandwidth
Only available in metros? Lack of introuctory materials in an easily accessible (printed) form.
Consumer Mentality
We should encourage people develop a producer culture.
Develop a "Good User" culture. (a) A good user reacts to all glitches by filing a "Good Bug Report" --- (need a link here on how to write good bug reports).
(b) A good user reacts to inactivity on her bug by the maintainer by providing a fix :-)
(c) A good user does not hesitate. If you fear that you will make a mistake and do not speak that will be a mistake.
Perfectionist attitude
People wait for perfection before release.
No patches and many forks
Hesitation to submit patches upstream.
Lack of awareness about bounties
Google Summer of Code, Redhat scholarship, Novell internship, NRCFOSS projects ...
Even with all these challenges we have some contributors which we can be proud of.