On 26 October 2013 08:40, Dolph Mathews <dolph.math...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> > wrote: >> >> >> *) They help casual contributors *more* than long time core >> contributors : and those are the folk that are most likely to give up >> and walk away. Keeping barriers to entry low is an important part of >> making OpenStack development accessible to new participants. > > > This is an interesting point. My reasoning for removing them was that I've > never seen *anyone* working to maintain them, or to add them to files where > they're missing. However, I suspect that the users benefiting from them > simply aren't deeply enough involved with the project to notice or care > about the inconsistency?
Thats my hypothesis too. > I'm all for low barriers of entry, so if there's > any evidence that this is true, I'd want to make them more prolific. I'm not sure how to gather evidence for this, either for or against ;(. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
