From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:36:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710140135020.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071013202713.GA2467@fieldses.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 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?

That is utter rubbish.

> Well, he does have a point that they could have been more specific.
> 
> But, yes, "I wish we could get people to be more specific" might be the 
> better way to put it.

Yes, there are politer ways to phrase it.

My main point is -- and always was -- that I'd like people to realise how 
much it depends on _them_ if (and when) their wishes come true.

Ciao,
Dscho