> It's not sexy, FOSS devs today only work on sexy. If it's maintenance or if it's hard and it's not sexy it goes without proper maintenance.
This is the whole issue right there. You simply cannot expect a bunch of random, talented people to create a finished, polished product with all the incredibly tedious process and discipline that it requires - especially (but not only) in terms of: design consistency, boring maintenance and validation.
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Date: 2014-05-19 10:33 pm (UTC)This is the whole issue right there. You simply cannot expect a bunch of random, talented people to create a finished, polished product with all the incredibly tedious process and discipline that it requires - especially (but not only) in terms of: design consistency, boring maintenance and validation.