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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: GSoC 2014: Summary so far, discussion starter: how to improve?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:00:44 -0500
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To: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Thomas Rast wrote:
> * Diminishing returns: Git is too mature, with little low-hanging
>   fruit left, making such projects harder

Too mature? Aren't there other projects that are "too mature" as well? In
particular I'm thinking about the Linux kernel.

I think it's not about maturity, but how they deal with change.

> * Does libgit2 want to remain under the Git umbrella, or participate
>   on its own?

Personally I don't see what libgit2 has to do with git.git. There isn't even
communication between the two projects.

-- 
Felipe Contreras