From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs author stats
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:33:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-LG7TkWkcsDrpfTGVFE7VcgJ-pbvhND-cFSyJVnc_OwPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mw1yzjua.fsf@gnu.org>
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Fair enough.
On Apr 23, 2015 10:10 PM, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 22:33 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
2015-04-23 22:33 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
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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