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.
>
>