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Maybe. The example that popped into my head, however, was Fabrice Bellard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_B
by hyperpape 6y ago
Maybe. The example that popped into my head, however, was Fabrice Bellard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard.
To the best of my knowledge, he shares in one way: a dump of his amazing code appears from time to time.
However, I have never read a comment, tweet, blog post, or mailing list post by him. They may exist and I have crossed paths with them. Or perhaps he's an incredibly helpful guy to work with. But that's not the foundation of his excellence.
- agumonkey 6y agoSays a thing or two about communication and web scale medias. I kinda interpreted this notion when following mailing lists of some projects. People there speak few but deep. The complete opposite of the web 2.0 (microblog, tweet.. it's all high frequency low depth). Good things require a good deal of patience and thinking ? I suppose that's what F.Bellard spends most of his day on.
- acdha 6y agoThat's an interesting example: the projects where he's had the greatest impact (QEMU, ffmpeg) are fairly normal open-source projects, with Fabrice participating with other people on mailing lists or bug trackers, not to mention successfully handing maintainership over to a larger community.
- hyperpape 6y agoFair. I don't follow those projects, so I guess I don't see that public participation. What I meant is that from the outside, it appears like he's just focused on the work.