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One quick note on the recent DW update
Sep. 9th, 2010 07:40 amI've seen comments in several places expressing concern that ![[staff profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
mark is not going to be working full-time for Dreamwidth. (See his post and the news post).
One thing that might help to know is thatmark was working full-time elsewhere for a lot of Dreamwidth's earlier development.
(He went full time for Dreamwidth in October 2009, so was working elsewhere full time during all of the closed beta + about the first four months of open beta. During which time he was actively involved in a whole bunch of coding and planning and other activity. You can see the post where he announces that change here. Reading news, it's very clear how active he was in getting cool and necessary stuff done.)
The goal with him going full-time for Dreamwidth was to be able to push through code reviews and other tasks more quickly that really took someone with extensive focused time to spend on them. Now thatfu has had time to settle in, I can easily see that it'd be possible to step back to still keeping a hand in, but earning a salary doing something else (and continuing to let him develop his skills in other ways beyond what DW would allow him to focus on.)
He isn't specific about the reasoning for the change now, and I really don't want to speculate on someone else's reasons for their decisions, but I'm delighted the site is flexible enough to allow the people who've built it this kind of choice.
One of the things that most attracts me to DW as a project is the goal - through design, through accessibility, through code choices - of opening up choices, not restricting them needlessly. That includesmark and denise and their personal lives.
(post public, in case anyone wants to link, and I'm crossposting to LJ as I've seen some comments over there, too.)
mark is not going to be working full-time for Dreamwidth. (See his post and the news post). One thing that might help to know is that
mark was working full-time elsewhere for a lot of Dreamwidth's earlier development.(He went full time for Dreamwidth in October 2009, so was working elsewhere full time during all of the closed beta + about the first four months of open beta. During which time he was actively involved in a whole bunch of coding and planning and other activity. You can see the post where he announces that change here. Reading news, it's very clear how active he was in getting cool and necessary stuff done.)
The goal with him going full-time for Dreamwidth was to be able to push through code reviews and other tasks more quickly that really took someone with extensive focused time to spend on them. Now that
fu has had time to settle in, I can easily see that it'd be possible to step back to still keeping a hand in, but earning a salary doing something else (and continuing to let him develop his skills in other ways beyond what DW would allow him to focus on.)He isn't specific about the reasoning for the change now, and I really don't want to speculate on someone else's reasons for their decisions, but I'm delighted the site is flexible enough to allow the people who've built it this kind of choice.
One of the things that most attracts me to DW as a project is the goal - through design, through accessibility, through code choices - of opening up choices, not restricting them needlessly. That includes
mark and denise and their personal lives.(post public, in case anyone wants to link, and I'm crossposting to LJ as I've seen some comments over there, too.)
