From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D24F1381F3 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8B4321C05D; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B98CD21C058 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.6] (vpn1.metro-data.com [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3YPXnz75Q8z1hfL for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:40:23 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1355679624; bh=EZNmc0mgbdOiXjQ45gNSithWzxhrlgRtQU5rEz379dQ=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=TsXKVhVffSE551ORnLc/RNAGauTl+swkm1mhdkvC8bnTjJaXze2LzrDYRzdUeaBXi Ri5bDSzTJ2LFQowAUOIdG8YQwz9tlODBRfo7BVBLQH2ku9ielOgnIHsesiuqJU2vhn yQfWZ43NgRuO50fYaiQKTcdOiklN3xmu9TqKSWCM= Message-ID: <50CE0787.2000307@orlitzky.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:40:23 -0500 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.10) Gecko/20121104 Thunderbird/10.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...) References: <50CDFD7F.7040207@orlitzky.com> <20121216170248.GS8220@gentoo.org> <50CE02CA.6000408@orlitzky.com> <20121216172334.GT8220@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20121216172334.GT8220@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3df028e4-7d38-40b4-a7b5-39101c454cfe X-Archives-Hash: a600edfa138da18dad701568b486b9e7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2012 12:23 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 16-12-2012 12:20:10 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Many new developers who want to contribute to to some project >> will learn git, because a large number of important projects use >> git. No (new) developers are going to learn CVS. Ever. >> >> Therefore, we can rule out "using CVS is helping us attract new >> developers." > > But it's sufficiently easy to learn (significantly easier than git) > that any person who is not capable of doing so would unlikely be a > good candiate to become a Gentoo developer. > Actually, I agree with this. But lots of people who are capable of learning CVS just don't want to, since it's (soon to be) a useless skill and perceived as a waste of time. Requiring everyone to do so is a disincentive -- that's all that I was suggesting. By eliminating the disincentive, you potentially attract more developers. You don't want to attract incompetent people obviously, but the overall cost/benefit of becoming a Gentoo developer needs to be less than that of saying "screw it" and working on Arch instead. When it isn't, you lose people. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQzgeGAAoJEBxJck0inpOilBIQAKpvRMyoGk4RaSHJ+lirPzOa MUXNyGWx1799Vud5/xCj86Yse9iA3Dz3lBIJTdJsFH+sAIh0W4YXiDTBNd5s/WoX Yry67BxWCyIffYtGvuF2z50kiorDyecgU1RP2Iu9BIjal0NBpoQnDmkzJNIHQYlT ZjxdEc2q0SNN8gne7B+MMT3JFAOHzw04AEPGzPBCupIt4QZnGegbX6G2v3ztfJM3 yIJ1r4aWH7BdWpUKB53SM3o7ZGP2A+g8xananEAg15bmVsvJvOspr8M2bZTuK6wC x+rwEiCQXCFhFGMz5MDiQlj59nSo7EYIOI4BY8S9RsrvQd9G2nNZkFkfhHcuVtll uZ8SyZ3yVtgKZaRpt9aS0voRTshNtSgJijzZvaAGmnHU05w17VKXtI2M4pmEkTSq QkkAtn3Zo9yvqcrX45cLgffPVDNsNFq8we80t7otbW7GLIss9bIuETY4DfLLpVxq VDOfsAptmny8sOE7ULM9pdZHONHZWaacqpQzCXhhx48ZdWSO06pEVyLcGx8kSlYs U+3tgm+0tY8qIQpTm/+afeXy2asaSQ3G3G/X19M/DgjYD/b67LjYMYS7cWhs9imB QFxiffuQ54WMxKHkFfwil7jkbsqsap/Iqjy4rToCOqJMCl7/j6sXwj/02ckePrBh tPGbmsLpTh6yO3bTQIQ1 =eTpd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----