[pytest-dev] returning from my break and choosing my role

[Bruno Oliveira]

Thanks a lot for this e-mail Ronny!

It is very important to be comfortable and in a role you enjoy and care
about when participating in a open source project like pytest.

As we have discussed many times in chat/email, backward compatibility
brakages are sometimes necessary and are part of the development and
evolution of a long running project, so those are welcome!

Myself and the rest of the team sure are glad to have you back! :)

Cheers,
Bruno.

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 5:30 PM RonnyPfannschmidt <
opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> in the last few weeks i have ramped up my involvement with pytest after
> taking a longer break.
>
> In my time of reflection i came to a few conclusions i want to share.
>
> The need for my break after all in part originated from caring too much
> about things that don't actually matter to me as a person.
> Its not sensible for me to stay on top of all the things and it destroys
> the time frames i actually have for contributing the things that i want
> to bring in.
>
> Back around 2005 when i i started with pytest, it was very simple and i
> could actually easily fix issues with pytest in a testsuite
> for that little while it took Holger to actually pick it up and fix it
> better in pytest itself.
>
> Over the following years, as my involvement with pytest grew and
> expanded, the feature-set pf pytest,
> as well as our technical debt from trying hard not to break things for
> users grew.
>
> Between 2016 i had taken it very hardly on myself that we cannot nicely
> iterate on this technical debt which turned pytest from something
> where i can easily fix a bug that affects my testsuite from my testsuite
> into something where that is not the case anymore.
>
> I had also taken it in on myself that some issues (like marker transfer
> between sibling classes) would affect some users gravely.
> And a fix was incredible hard to come by back then.
>
> My self-introspection while taking the pause has lead me to a few
> questions and my personal answers.
>
> What do i want to be responsible for ?
> What do i want to feel responsible for ?
> What do i want out of my Involvement ?
>
> Its important to answer those with a good base-level of the "good
> selfishness" which is there to preserve our own selves in the world and
> to assert our own position.
>
> In future i will no longer be on top of all the issues in some sense (in
> fact, ignoring issues that don't spark my interest has left me with time
> to do more about things that i care about, both pytest and other things).
> In future i will work on guiding and developing pytest into a direction
> where users will actually be able to fix bugs that affect them in a own
> testsuite until we fix it right.
> In future i will work on community building - i want the community of
> pytest to grow, i want the number of pytest core developers to grow and
> i want the number of active umbrella plugins to grow.
> For that a vibrant, including and encouraging community setup is needed
> (plus community builder is a great self development goal, i have so many
> rough edges at community communication that i want to smooth/reshape).
>
> And while aiming for that a primary goal of mine will be joy
> * joy of developing and bringing things forward
> * joy of interacting and helping people/myself to grow
> * joy of being in control of what i do for who and when i do it.
>
> I'm choosing a future that i will enjoy and and i invite everyone to
> join me in the journey of choosing a personal future abundant with the
> positive.
>
> Whats coming next is that i'm going to keep slowly organizing myself
> around the changes i want to bring forward and slowly bringing them into
> reality in small sustainable steps.
>
> Part of that already manifests in my proposals/changes to the
> development processes and the Node Structures.
>
> The rest will reveal itself as i refine my own processes and start to
> communicate better/more structured.
>
> Regards, Ronny
>
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