In one case, I literally drew a two-page activity diagram, documenting aaaaalllll of the logic, setup the repo and created some boilerplate and defined the core classes and showed him a completed OS program that does something similar...
Couldn't even get him to pull the repo. Couldn't possibly have prechewed it, anymore.
In college, they give me five sentences and five days and basta.
Yah well . . . unfortunately the answer is in the bell curve. Only so much talent, character and time available for FOSS. May have to break into little pieces with well defined scope with lots of little wins and rest breaks. I have actually paid frens out of pocket to code specific bits that were in their specialty wheelhouse rather than ask community. Submitted it myself and moved on. Was just quicker and guaranteed good code, plus he gave me the buddy discount. Million ways to skin a cat.
