Re: Google Summer of Code '07 application

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 9, 2007, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk5xq5atd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070309153934.GA1131@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> ...
>> I wonder if it'd be easy to come up with some more specifics to support
>> these kinds of statements.  Could even point to particular exchanges in
>> the mail archives if there's anything short that obviously demonstrates
>> the point.  Also I think it's not so much "friendliness" as willingness
>> (and ability) to communicate what's important very clearly.
>
> Locating specifics might be good.  I can't think of any off the
> top of my head.  Maybe if I went waaaaay back and found some of
> my initial emails (Feb 17th timeframe), I could use myself as
> an example.  I know I got beat up a bit by Junio about how I did
> a bug fix in git-reset.  ;-)

I do not remember that one.

But one thing I think everybody can be proud of about this community is that we haven't had any meaningless flamewar at all. Even the discussions on the hotter side in the past, perhaps primarily coming from crashing cultures, tended to produce useful improvements.

One example that comes to my mind is the UI change in 1.5.0. It started when Carl Worth was sufficiently irritated by how different and inapproachable git was to new people, and at some point the discussion almost went near "well, distributed is different from CVS, so shut up and come back later when your CVS braindamange is healed", but we quite didn't go that way. Instead, the discussion resulted in the "usability and teachability" theme.