On Jan 28, 8:24 pm, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bottom line, it's better to recruit people and get a few bad apples > than not recruit at all.
Well, I think rjf's point may be that there's a third possibility: we may recruit people and get 80% bad apples. People with lots of free time and persistent but misdirected energies can really drain the resources of productive people with limited time/energy. I don't necessarily agree that this is a *likely* outcome of recruiting programmers from the public at large, but I do think it's worth taking a little more seriously. As Tom has pointed out, the structure required for sage contributions should help in this area. And maybe we'll think of some other ways to help ensure quality contributions. -Niles -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
