They love me. They hate me.
While I don’t consider myself as an active OS contributer, I have however in the past release/distribute codes for a couple of projects. So far, I have released two wordpress themes. I am also currently actively involve in the development of an open source event publishing system. That’s not including other misc. php and JS scripts and also my entire CS homeworks (java).
One of the many benefits of being involve in OS projects is you frequently get quick and honest feedbacks from the community/developers. I have had my fair share of the good and bad ones. Bad as in ‘you suck big time. do you even have a cs degree?’ kind of bad. Not in a very constructive way, one might say. But nevertheless, some of them are quite funny.
Here are some of the memorable ones (both good and bad):
This theme sucks … the author is clearly an ego maniac! - Joe Bloggs [link]
Great theme! Really very nice layout, soft colors, gradients and shadows. And very detailed. I like the look every pixel, even my eyes going like crazy after such a long looking in monitor. - Maryndor [link]
Wonderwall - 可愛到不行的佈景 (direct translation: cute until cannot. OK it means very good.) - Beata [link]
please excuse my English, and my anger! it is a shame! no read me, all the links point to the website of the author, it is necessary to modify all the link! worse the links are not coding! but of images which it is necessary to work over again with photoshop!! it is beautiful, but unusable! as much to do it would be even! RIDICULOUS!! (like my english :-D (sorry for google translate, i’am french and i dont speak english) - jer666 [link]
Shockingly pretty…(UNL Event Publisher) - elaine nelson [link]
I still very much enjoy getting feedbacks and feature requests. In fact I would go so far as to say it can sometimes be the only main motivator for me (i’m after all, an ego-maniac). Keep them coming, I am all about open arms.
