Troubled English speaking devs
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:01 am
I've recently read that English speaking devs find it difficult that supporting documentation is only in Russian.
If you agree with that, could you explain to me what you mean?
Are you already an active dev and facing issues? Or are you wanting to contribute, but find you are limited by a language barrier?
I guess I was a little shocked to read it. So now I am just curious. I am presenting no alternative argument or anything like that. I just would like to better understand the issue.
Asmxygen is pretty English friendly.
I always thought a source distro of KolibriOS would be nice. Something that can run from binaries only built by FASM. Then the Additions ISO has the foppy ram disk and extra ASM source files. Although it would take some know how to manually build the floppy ram disk (build the disk from scratch), you could easily replace files with ones you built yourself.
Then based on something like that, divers language documentation could be built up for the more novice developer.
But obviously this aim is a far target, when compared to the github way of things. And it may be a far cry from what the core team members would have any interest in.
But its my two cents, when looking at bringing in new devs.
I have a hard time telling whats going on behind the scenes of opensource OS projects. But of ones available, it seams to me that Kolibri has pretty good potential for "raising" interesting developers. And it is one of the few that has the potential to "continually" support dated hardware, without becoming a retro project.
Ironically, in my view, a true opensource happened in Russia before GNU and RMS. Similar to the S-100 bus computer groups in the US, Russia has been a pretty good source of homebrew shared source computing. I don't have a clue how the devs here feel, but I myself envision Kolibri in that kind of light. Its almost rebellious.
The following is my attempt at ironic humor, so don't take me seriously. But for a different kind of opensource, maybe the developing language should be in Russian.
If you agree with that, could you explain to me what you mean?
Are you already an active dev and facing issues? Or are you wanting to contribute, but find you are limited by a language barrier?
I guess I was a little shocked to read it. So now I am just curious. I am presenting no alternative argument or anything like that. I just would like to better understand the issue.
Asmxygen is pretty English friendly.
I always thought a source distro of KolibriOS would be nice. Something that can run from binaries only built by FASM. Then the Additions ISO has the foppy ram disk and extra ASM source files. Although it would take some know how to manually build the floppy ram disk (build the disk from scratch), you could easily replace files with ones you built yourself.
Then based on something like that, divers language documentation could be built up for the more novice developer.
But obviously this aim is a far target, when compared to the github way of things. And it may be a far cry from what the core team members would have any interest in.
But its my two cents, when looking at bringing in new devs.
I have a hard time telling whats going on behind the scenes of opensource OS projects. But of ones available, it seams to me that Kolibri has pretty good potential for "raising" interesting developers. And it is one of the few that has the potential to "continually" support dated hardware, without becoming a retro project.
Ironically, in my view, a true opensource happened in Russia before GNU and RMS. Similar to the S-100 bus computer groups in the US, Russia has been a pretty good source of homebrew shared source computing. I don't have a clue how the devs here feel, but I myself envision Kolibri in that kind of light. Its almost rebellious.
The following is my attempt at ironic humor, so don't take me seriously. But for a different kind of opensource, maybe the developing language should be in Russian.