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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp
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chad |
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Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp |
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Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:43:03 -0800 |
On 18 Feb 2014, at 07:31, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Incidentally, I say "change" and not "patch". Submitting a change these
>>> days generally means "clone, branch, pull request".
>>
>> Sorry, I don't understand the subtlety.
>
> I think it's a paraphrase of "real developers use GitHub", a service
> running on proprietary software and having a variety of commercial
> offerings, including a rather popular "take it or leave it" zero
> pricetag offering.
I think it’s a paraphrase of “lots of developers are used to a model where they
submit changes that are taken, with or without modification, rather than a
process whereby they suggest a change and then begin a dialog”. Github is
definitely one of the promulgators of this model, but it’s certainly not the
only one.
Without digging into real data (sorry), I’d say that around 33-50% of the
changes submitted to emacs-devel from new people don’t land, either because of
explicit rejection or because the effective hurdle is high enough that people
don’t get over it. I’d further say that at least half of those failures to land
result from platform-specific issues. There are good reasons for the policies
that create these hurdles, but they surely make it much harder for people to
start working on emacs, even compared to other free/libre software projects.
I hope that helps,
~Chad
- Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), (continued)
- Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Dmitry Gutov, 2014/02/15
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/16
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/02/16
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/16
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/02/16
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/02/17
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp (was: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101338: ...), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/17
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, David Kastrup, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp,
chad <=
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, chad, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/18
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Glenn Morris, 2014/02/19
- Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2014/02/20