Re: More metaproblem

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
> Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The barrier to the documentation change is when people see senior devs
> > pointing to etc/CONTRIBUTE as a fine place for dev documentation and
> > think "Oh, so the project thinks that's okay?  They point to that as a
> > solution, rather than as a problem?  I guess I'm in the wrong place."
> 
> I have not seen anyone (other than you) state this.

Potential developers look at things like this and they see a project
that has learned nothing and forgotten nothing since before 1996.

No one thing like this is a dealbreaker for any single person. It's
the accumulation of such details that acts as a KEEP OUT sign.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>