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One of the most important lessons in volunteer-driven development is that motivation isn’t commutable. If a contributor hadn’t worked on thing Y, that doesn’t automatically mean that they would have dedicated their time to thing Z instead.
It’s not a given that people are equally motivated for everything.
@bragefuglseth This is one of the most annoying things I see in discussions about forks or alternative software, as an example if COSMIC didn't exist then those developers could spend there time contributing to GNOME or KDE, but that's not how this has ever worked.
It seems like some people want to treat the whole FOSS world as one company where if you didn't work on one thing then you'd be shifted over to the team working on this other thing.
@BrodieOnLinux @bragefuglseth Motivation isn't commutable in *any* development effort, volunteer or otherwise. It continues to baffle me that people keep saying things as if it were.
@Conan_Kudo @bragefuglseth Even if you do a bad job at least the money you get from a job can act as some level of motivator especially if you don't have anything else lined up
@BrodieOnLinux @Conan_Kudo @bragefuglseth I want to add, that in my professional life I've met enough IT folks who didn't care a tiny bit what they were working on as long as they made enough money to finance their home they've got for their family.
Which makes the initial point even stronger, because FOSS people are generally motivated by the work itself, but general IT worker might have entirely different reasons.
Not to say there aren't paid devs like me who are indeed motivated by the work