From: MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>,
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>,
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>,
Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:35:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7592d260-457c-76f0-e467-bd627fe33f72@fannys.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6nrstyj.fsf@gmail.com>
On 9/18/23 12:37, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 at 19:20, MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me> wrote:
>
>> Including an committer. And the fact that guix doesn't get have many
>> committers and contributors are scarce, speaks for itself. If you don't
>> see it I suggest asking people in social networks/forums why they
>> *don't* get involved in guix.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ git shortlog -sn --all | wc -l
> 952
>
> $ git log --format="%ce" | sort | uniq -c | wc -l
> 104
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Please point one project where:
>
> + more than 900 people have contributed to the project,
> + more than 100 people had or have write access in the repository.
>
> It is fine to discuss how to improve and what we could do better. It is
> incorrect to say “guix doesn't get have many committers and
> contributors” and it is not fine to frame it negatively.
I was talking from my experience. If you don't share it that is fine.
>> For example Debian moved to Gitlab. Same for gnome and kde.
> As I pointed in my very first reply [1] in this thread:
>
> For instance, Debian is based on Gitlab since their switch from Alioth
> to Salsa. It would be interesting to know if this “new” web-based
> workflow using Merge Request is increasing the number of submissions
> and/or increasing the number of occasional contributors.
>
> As far as I have read all this thread, no one provides numbers. The
> answer by Vagrant (Debian Developer and Guix contributor) appears to me
> interesting [2]. Therefore, could we stop this useless and unproductive
> flamewar? Many Guix channels are hosted on Gitlab, Github or Sourcehut
> and they are not receiving so much more contributions. As Katherine
> pointed [3],
Regarding the many contributions it has to do also with a lot of other
stuff. Obviously a web interface wouldn't
solve everything. And i hope it never seemed I said otherwise.
>
> I know everyone is focusing on email vs. web-forge, but I am trying to
> draw attention to the root causes of the complexity, and enumerating
> possible solutions to these.
>
> and I think that kind of mindset is very helpful; it is engaging. Well,
> to my approximate recollection, there is a talk at each DebConf about
> reflecting on newcomers backed by some stats; e.g., [4]. In summary,
> “email vs. web-forge” is a fake-problem, IMHO. Last, the talk [5] by
> Enrico Zini appears to me much more fruitful. The question is about
> sustain the community. And this sustainability does not clearly depend
> on any tool.
>
The thing is nobody talked about email vs web forge to my knowledge though.
What was pointed out was specifically cognitive overhead and how we can
reduce that.
One of the solution offered was to have *also* a web interface. It was
never suggested any comparison.
The comparison seemed to have stemmed from some people feeling they
would be left behind (?) and wanting to
prove that email is better or something. Personally i don't care what is
better.
What i care is that some people prefer web-based so we should
accommodate them :) plain and simple.
MSavoritias
> Cheers,
> simon
>
>
> 1: Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?
> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:53:14 +0200
> id:871qfsuvad.fsf@gmail.com
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-08
> https://yhetil.org/guix/871qfsuvad.fsf@gmail.com
>
> 2: Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
> Sat, 02 Sep 2023 18:05:40 -0700
> id:87wmx8m5gb.fsf@wireframe
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09
> https://yhetil.org/guix/87wmx8m5gb.fsf@wireframe
>
> 3: Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?
> Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:15:48 -0600
> id:13416fee-8c7d-b145-48b9-0fbec22517b1@gmail.com
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-09
> https://yhetil.org/guix/13416fee-8c7d-b145-48b9-0fbec22517b1@gmail.com
>
> 4: https://debconf23.debconf.org/talks/32-teams-newcomers-and-numbers/
> 5: https://debconf23.debconf.org/talks/2-adulting/
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2023-08-23 16:25 How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors? Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-08-23 17:27 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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2023-08-25 8:07 ` Attila Lendvai
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2023-08-25 9:57 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-08-25 23:56 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-08-25 14:44 ` Wilko Meyer
2023-08-26 14:37 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-27 12:07 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-08-27 13:57 ` Saku Laesvuori
2023-08-27 17:08 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-29 10:04 ` MSavoritias
2023-08-29 11:05 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-05 15:33 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-05 19:16 ` Csepp
2023-09-05 20:43 ` Simon Tournier
2023-08-29 3:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-05 16:01 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-05 17:01 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
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2023-09-08 22:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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2023-09-08 14:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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2023-09-06 20:10 ` Wojtek Kosior via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-09-17 8:01 ` MSavoritias
2023-09-07 20:38 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
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2023-09-17 8:07 ` MSavoritias
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2023-09-06 16:53 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-06 17:52 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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2023-09-08 9:16 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-08 16:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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2023-09-05 22:57 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-06 2:34 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-06 9:07 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-07 20:39 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-09 12:32 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 12:19 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-12 15:35 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-12 15:35 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-09 17:14 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-11 12:37 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-11 21:25 ` Csepp
2023-09-12 9:09 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-12 11:09 ` Csepp
2023-09-12 14:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-17 12:39 ` MSavoritias
2023-09-08 10:25 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-06 19:01 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-08 9:53 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-08 11:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-09-08 12:40 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-12 16:05 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
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2023-09-13 7:57 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-13 9:28 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-12 16:08 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-12 16:08 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
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2023-09-08 16:54 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-09-06 2:49 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-06 22:16 ` kiasoc5
2023-09-08 15:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-09-08 19:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-09-08 20:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-09-12 16:18 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-12 16:18 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2023-09-09 10:01 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-09 19:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-08-28 8:15 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
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