From: David Kastrup Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:31:27 GMT Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers Message-ID: <87385emedc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> Michael J Gruber writes: > Christian Couder venit, vidit, dixit 07.03.2015 08:18: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Kastrup 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 . It is considered tasteless to even mention camp B. -- David Kastrup