Re: Working with public-inbox.org

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 28, 2016, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608281033340.129229@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <d2c4d54f-e3be-8e17-860c-d9b8bacf68e0@gmail.com>

Hi Kuba,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:

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> W dniu 25.08.2016 o 14:58, Johannes Schindelin pisze:
> > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Eric Wong wrote:
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just want developers who are already familiar with Git, and come up with
> >>> an improvement to Git itself, to be able to contribute it without having
> >>> to pull out their hair in despair.
> >>
> >> We want the same thing.  I just want to go farther and get
> >> people familiar with (federated|decentralized) tools instead of
> >> proprietary and centralized ones.
> > 
> > Why require users to get familiar with (federated|decentralized) tools
> > *unless* they make things provably more convenient? So far, I only see
> > that this would add to the hurdle, not improve things.
> 
> Arguably for some federated/decentralized tools are preferred
> (for philosophical reasons), even if they do not achieve even feature
> parity with centralized tools (c.f. FSF).

This statement is false. If you had talked about *your* preference, it would be true. But to state that federated/decentralized tools are universally preferred is nonsense.

You know as well as I do that most users/contributors go for convenience.

And if you require an inconvenient step (e.g. subscribing to a federated/decentralized philosophy), most potential contributors simply stop being potential contributors. End of story.

Ciao, Johannes