Even getting people to agree in a FOSS project is incredibly...

Even getting people to agree in a FOSS project is incredibly hard, because most contribute their own time. Learning to build consensus is a very hard to acquire skill, otherwise in a week everyone would be arguing and go do their own project or engine the way they think its better.

Likewise is learning how to make sure that, with external contributors, code quality can remain top notch is another hard to acquire skill.

I don't know, maybe it took us a lot to learn these cause we are stupid 😅

Like 3 October at 17:27 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

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NitramiuZ

@reduz It really is insane to be able to in each *dev* version go "yeah we got 300 improvements since last time". Awesome stuff

3 October at 17:36 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Irve

@nitramiuz @reduz In the 1.5 years I've dabbled in Godot I have had 2 editor crashes. And I've been almost daily dabbling since May and I upgrade the project to any RC I find.

My Firefox has crashed ~10 times in that time.

3 October at 18:31 | Open on est.social

redj

@reduz
Well at least projects like Godot, Blender or even Krita show that this is somewhat possible. But yeah, it's hard and takes time! Anyway I'm happy tools like this exist. It shows collaboration always ends up pushing things in the right direction for the users, avoiding the inescapable enshittification of proprietary software...

3 October at 18:52 | Open on piaille.fr

Senad

@reduz personally, I think solving problems revolving around humans is much harder than solving technical issues. So while the technical side of Godot is impressive, I was always even more impressed by how the project handles the topics of governance, community and communication! Even from the days when it was only Remi and you. 🤩👍

4 October at 5:47 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place