1. Elten is also guided by a non-profit organization. :D NVDA keeps so well only because of many volunteer programmers wo contribute. Why Elten does not, regarding its presence on Github just from the beginning?
2. Learning another language for a programmer is not an obstacle. Or, at least, should not be.
In Poland if you're hired by a company, you shouldn't ask if their product can be rewritten, cause you on't know the language. They would laugh on you so much. A good programmist should be flexible enough, that's what I know.
3. If you cannot contribute to the app itself, which I personally still cannot understand, why won't you contribute to server optimization? I believe it is not all about Ruby itself.
4. And still, Ruby is not an unpopular language. If it were, I wouldn't see so many job offers for ruby devs.
5. Well, to be honest, i can't understand this: "The fact of the matter is you volunteered. You made the choice to commit to this and you gave a timeline, even if only tentatively. There's nothing wrong with people to expect you to keep to your word. That's not being ungrateful, that's human nature.
". If that's human nature, I do not understand and accept human nature. If you mean we volunteered and that is why we should do even more, only because we all are volunteers, including dev, that's quite illogical, isn't it?
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The NVDA allusion is flawed on so many levels. The only reason NVDA has so few devs is due to NV access status as being a non-profit. They can only hire devs from Australia. Of course, in the grand scheme of things Australia is a small country population wise and NVDA itself is a pretty obscure programme. So of course it'll have a few blind developers. As for Ruby, objectively speaking it's a pretty neesh language as well. Sure it's used but Python, C# ETC is significantly more popular. While you may not get full scale employed programmers, if it were coded in one of those other languages you would have gotten people who could have at least tweaked the minor bugs while you do the heavy lifting. So I suppose I don't quite see your argument here.
As for the main point I think it's very reasonable to expect some kind of update as to the situation regarding the English forums. Things have cooled down for now but the fact of the matter is the English forum is still a car with a block on the X with no driver. We're only safe for now because we're driving down a straight road with no obsticles, but what happens when we encounter an obsticle? Also, I'm frankly tired of seeing people use the volunteer excuse as a cop out whenever the slightest bit of pressure is applied. The fact of the matter is you volunteered. You made the choice to commit to this and you gave a timeline, even if only tentatively. There's nothing wrong with people to expect you to keep to your word. That's not being ungrateful, that's human nature.
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2. Learning another language for a programmer is not an obstacle. Or, at least, should not be.
In Poland if you're hired by a company, you shouldn't ask if their product can be rewritten, cause you on't know the language. They would laugh on you so much. A good programmist should be flexible enough, that's what I know.
3. If you cannot contribute to the app itself, which I personally still cannot understand, why won't you contribute to server optimization? I believe it is not all about Ruby itself.
4. And still, Ruby is not an unpopular language. If it were, I wouldn't see so many job offers for ruby devs.
5. Well, to be honest, i can't understand this: "The fact of the matter is you volunteered. You made the choice to commit to this and you gave a timeline, even if only tentatively. There's nothing wrong with people to expect you to keep to your word. That's not being ungrateful, that's human nature.
". If that's human nature, I do not understand and accept human nature. If you mean we volunteered and that is why we should do even more, only because we all are volunteers, including dev, that's quite illogical, isn't it?
-- (Sir-Charlie):
The NVDA allusion is flawed on so many levels. The only reason NVDA has so few devs is due to NV access status as being a non-profit. They can only hire devs from Australia. Of course, in the grand scheme of things Australia is a small country population wise and NVDA itself is a pretty obscure programme. So of course it'll have a few blind developers. As for Ruby, objectively speaking it's a pretty neesh language as well. Sure it's used but Python, C# ETC is significantly more popular. While you may not get full scale employed programmers, if it were coded in one of those other languages you would have gotten people who could have at least tweaked the minor bugs while you do the heavy lifting. So I suppose I don't quite see your argument here.
As for the main point I think it's very reasonable to expect some kind of update as to the situation regarding the English forums. Things have cooled down for now but the fact of the matter is the English forum is still a car with a block on the X with no driver. We're only safe for now because we're driving down a straight road with no obsticles, but what happens when we encounter an obsticle? Also, I'm frankly tired of seeing people use the volunteer excuse as a cop out whenever the slightest bit of pressure is applied. The fact of the matter is you volunteered. You made the choice to commit to this and you gave a timeline, even if only tentatively. There's nothing wrong with people to expect you to keep to your word. That's not being ungrateful, that's human nature.
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