DMGIt Isn't Just Coding
Nathan Willis has posted an excellent article on Newsforge: The CVS Cop-Out and the Stranded User. It's a small gripe, really. But in a larger sense, Willis's point is that being a programmer is about far, far, far more than writing code, and that open source project teams often don't seem to know this.
Willis says:
You really have to have blinders on to think that a patch in the revision control system marks the end of the issue.
And there's the nutshell. Writing software is about serving your users. If you lose sight of that, your project and your career are doomed.