From: David Kastrup Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:57:12 GMT Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued Message-ID: <85myumohqv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <20071013202713.GA2467@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:59:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum