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I've spent several unproductive hours trying to rebuild an installation of Lazarus, the cross-platform Free Pascal IDE. Lazarus installs and works fine out of the box, but adding a new component package requires a rebuild, and this is the point where things come unstuck. Repeatedly unstuck, despite aggressive uninstallation, re-installation and trawling forums for help.
I have enough geek genes to resolve most issues, and I'll nail this one too: but it shouldn't have to be this difficult. The threads I've found with similar problems suggest these issues are not uncommon, but there's a lack of authoritative documentation on overcoming them. This seems to be typical of many open source projects, but it doesn't have to be that way.
A lot of open source tools provide excellent documentation, but there are still too many project teams which seem ambivalent about letting the great unwashed in on the fun. Yes, I know that when you've got your developer hat on, the thought of writing user documentation can seem, well ... nah. But that's no excuse.
There are too many exciting projects which suffer poor or non-existent documentation and successfully avoid mass adoption as a result. If you ever catch me doing this, kick me unmercifully. Please.
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Leigh Harrison is currently repaying karma from a past life by working as an IT Generalist in this one.