On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Hervé <the...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le 01/07/2011 16:42, Itamar Turner-Trauring a écrit : > >> Well, that logic is a bit flawed though: you're kind of saying that we > >> shouldn't use a better tool because it may bring us more contributors > >> than we can handle. At the end of the day, we would still use a better > >> tool though. > > > > No, I'm saying that given limited resources, addressing the giant piles > of > > unused code we have (and figuring out how new code won't end up in the > > attic) seems like a higher priority. Using better tools is always a good > > idea, and if you'd like to argue that github means patches are less > likely > > to be abandoned that's a good argument to make. > > > > I'm arguing for a broader look at what our development process problems > > are, and that perhaps efforts should be directed elsewhere. > > While I sympathize with what you're saying, this sounds kind of > orthogonal to me. Sure, we can do better at handling contributions. But > it's an opensource project, everybody does whatever he wants mostly (in > the frame that the project sets). > > Saying to Laurens that we have limited "resources" and that he should do > something else doesn't mean that this second task will be done. But it > surely means that first one won't. > > -- > Thomas > I'd say that's a safe bet. -- cheers lvh
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