From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs author stats
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:10:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mw1yzjua.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55394F1B.5060201@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:59:23 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> CC: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 04/23/2015 10:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Either way, I think the relevant metric is precisely the number of
> >> *committers*.
> >
> > Not for us, no. Committers don't write code, they just commit. What
> > we need is more active developers, i.e. authors.
>
> Of course we do, but people who just send patches are much less affected
> by the choice of the VCS.
That's not what we were told when this issue came up in the past. To
send a patch, you need to clone the repository, develop and test the
patch, send it for review, update it several times according to
comments, rebase it as master gets new commits, etc. All of which
involves the VCS, and so many people said they will not consider
becoming contributors unless we switched to Git.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-23 17:41 Emacs author stats Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-04-23 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 18:27 ` John Wiegley
2015-04-23 18:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-04-23 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 18:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-23 19:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-04-23 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 19:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-23 22:33 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-24 8:46 ` Peder O. Klingenberg
2015-04-24 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-23 20:01 ` chad
2015-04-24 1:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-23 18:49 ` Artur Malabarba
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