Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 13, 2007, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <85myumohqv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20071013202713.GA2467@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

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> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:59:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
> ...survey quote:
>> >>    Figure out why people find git hard to learn and eliminate those
>> >>    barriers to entry.  Make git more task-oriented rather than
>> >>    data-model-oriented the way it is now.
>> >
>> > Frankly, expectations like these make me want to bang somebody's
>> > head on the wall.
>> 
>> And you wonder that people are unwilling to ask for things on the
>> list?  When even mentioning something in a _survey_ makes core
>> developers want to bang their heads against a wall?
>
> Well, he does have a point that they could have been more specific.

He did not write "vague phrasings like this". He wrote "_expectations_ like these make [him] want to bang somebody's head on the wall".

> But, yes, "I wish we could get people to be more specific" might be
> the better way to put it.

It is something entirely different.

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