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Michael Orlitzky posted on Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:20:10 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> On 12/16/2012 12:02 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>> On 16-12-2012 11:57:35 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>>> 3. Get off CVS for Christ's sake. Nobody wants to work with that. |
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>>> I don't know how this fits into my bullet list, but it's important. |
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>> It doesn't, and it's not. |
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> I'm not going to put together a powerpoint presentation for you, but |
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> think about it this way. |
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> Many new developers who want to contribute to to some project will learn |
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> git, because a large number of important projects use git. No (new) |
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> developers are going to learn CVS. Ever. |
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> Therefore, we can rule out "using CVS is helping us attract new |
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> developers." |
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I agree getting off of CVS is important in that it's likely triggering a |
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writeoff of gentoo from the list of potential volunteers before they even |
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get to where we see them, but AFAIK, the switch to git /is/ making (slow) |
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progress. One of the big blockers was apparently taken care of via |
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bounty (relatively) recently, and I don't think they'd have spent the |
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money on that if they believed it to be pouring that money down a rathole. |
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Before finding out about that, I too had despaired of the git transition |
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being anything but "bluesky", but that's concrete indication that |
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/somebody/ is still working on it, and that it's considered important |
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enough for the gentoo foundation to spend money on. |
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Meanwhile, I'm not sure how practical your bounty for recruiting spruceup |
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is, since much of that work's likely to require intimate knowledge of |
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gentoo and recruiting to approve, if not to actually do, and that level |
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of knowledge is apparently in short supply, or recruiting wouldn't be the |
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bottleneck it seems to be. |
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I don't know how important a general gentoo web page redesign might be (I |
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think what's there is perfectly functional and great), but you're |
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certainly correct on the content itself; anything still mentioning |
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looking for openings in the weekly newsletter is... anachronistic I think |
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is the term. Have you checked for and filed if necessary, a bug on that? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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