I'm really disturbed by Pat's problems, especially because they've been
ongoing. I'm so jaded that half of me thinks this is a fund raising
con.



On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:03:24 +0200
Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:

> I am in favor of facilitating the strong passion of people who like to
> "just do it" ...

Related:

In the early history of wikis, removing barriers to entry to
participation created a "be bold" philosophy using loginless editing
and markup languages. Allowing everymen to contribute had the very
rare (think Price's Law[1]) possibility of extremely uncommon folk
contributing.

Well.. what evolved for wikis is a shadow of the Benevolent Dictator
For Life (BDFL): Coordinated cliques.

Higher technical requirements doesn't allow that. We need the old
mentor-mentee / master-apprentice concept back, for all kinds of
reasons aside from the bus factor[2] that I'd drone on about for too
long.



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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price
    Price's law pertains to the relationship between the literature on
    a subject and the number of authors in the subject area, stating
    that half of the publications come from the square root of all
    contributors. Thus, if 100 papers are written by 25 authors, five
    authors will have contributed 50 papers.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
    A measurement of the risk resulting from information and
    capabilities not being shared among team members, from the phrase
    "in case they get hit by a bus".