On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My point is simple: yes, it's nice to have a big user base. We > already do. Now, what's the point of pitching to end-users who only > use the most basic functionality? Their inputs are likely to be > useless (arising from misunderstandings) anyway. They're not going to > be the next developers. And they're not going to help create what our > next developer is looking for in us either (i.e. codebase, community). That is your mistake right there. They *are* the next developers, you yourself came from there. We all did. In fact, this notion that there's a divide between users and developers is a myth; it's a continuum that follows the Pareto distribution. It happens in every healthy open source project. And this is not an assumption, I've measured it: http://felipec.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/no-project-is-more-important-than-its-users/ 70% of the commits in git.git come from people that have provided less than 6 patches. That 70% (maybe 80%, maybe 90%) would have never happened, if git didn't have a large enough user-base. I'm not idolizing the user-base, this project *is* the user-base, developers are users, and without users there's no project. Again, in the words of Linus: no project is more important than it's users. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
