Re: Promoting Git developers
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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- Mar 9, 2015, 14:31 UTC
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
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> Christian Couder venit, vidit, dixit 07.03.2015 08:18: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>> At some point of time I think it may be worth reevaluating the toxic >>> atmosphere against freelancers doing Git development. >> >> My opinion on this is that the Git community has not been good >> especially lately at promoting its own developers. >> > > I guess we have at least 3 kinds of people here: > > A) Paid to do Git development, at least as part of their job. > B) Freelancers who don't get paid directly for "doing git" but hope to > profit from their git efforts directly or indirectly. > C) Doing it in their freetime (or as minor, inofficial part of their > non-programming job). > > I'm in camp C and honestly wasn't aware of camp B until now.
My guess is that camp B is dead and intentionally so. For the rationale, see for example <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247165/>. It is considered tasteless to even mention camp B.
-- David Kastrup