Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

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Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi Liliana,
>
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> For example, whenever people say that "forges would improve stuff", my
>> reply is (modulo phrasing) "yes, for the people who are already used to
>> forges".
>
> I just want to point out that actually Guix _do_have_ a forge. the
> software is Savane and it's hosted on savannah.gnu.org:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix
>
> This is just to remind everyone that there are very different forges out
> there, and:
>
>   All forges suck, _no one_ sucks less

To quote the elementary HIG:
"Design is not just, like, your opinion, man"
https://docs.elementary.io/hig/design-philosophy#design-is-not-just-like-your-opinion-man

Just because two alternatives are both imperfect does not mean they are
equally bad.  Statistically speaking, 10 forges having the same
"suckiness" score has an infinitesimal chance.

A more meaningful argument would be that the alternatives have different
goals, but even that's shaky, since most of their goals are shared.
If it takes me 30 minutes to find a commit in a repo on one forge and 5
minutes on another, then one forge is *objectively* worse in *that
aspect*.

I don't think repeating that no forge sucks less advances the
conversation towards any solution other than keeping the status quo,
which can't really be called a solution.