comment by Christopher Allan Webber

Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-07-29T20:46:16Z

Sigh... what can I say, we've done our best to make things as easy as we can within the framework of the languages and tools that we're working within. And yeah: it's hard. Could we do better? I'd like to.

Again, if I think you're running most non-PHP web applications, you're probably going to run into this. And hence the userops stuff and my interest in Guix.

I don't think it's as hard as an otherworldly math beast. (I'm not an otherworldly math beast... and plenty of non-math-beasts have done so.)

Anyway, I don't think installing is the hard part. I think maintaining it is. And it's hard, in the way that most of this networked freedom stuff is.

So, what can we do?

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As a maintainer, maintaining is the hard part. The trick is that new maintainers will come from the userbase, and without making an install a matter of "aptitude install mediagoblin" or "guix package -i mediagoblin" followed by a short config file edit, the userbase will remain small.

It might be a function of the languages/frameworks chosen, but without that level of engagement it will be difficult to grow (and thus encourage others to help make things easier).

Kevin Everets at 2016-07-29T21:47:15Z

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