From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:31:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87385emedc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , git To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 15:31:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUyiU-0004Zj-86 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:31:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932542AbbCIOb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:31:29 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:45860 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932530AbbCIOb2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:31:28 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44900 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUyiN-0007vv-QF; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:31:28 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E47FE062D; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:31:27 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:57:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber writes: > Christian Couder venit, vidit, dixit 07.03.2015 08:18: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> At some point of time I think it may be worth reevaluating the toxic >>> atmosphere against freelancers doing Git development. >> >> My opinion on this is that the Git community has not been good >> especially lately at promoting its own developers. >> > > I guess we have at least 3 kinds of people here: > > A) Paid to do Git development, at least as part of their job. > B) Freelancers who don't get paid directly for "doing git" but hope to > profit from their git efforts directly or indirectly. > C) Doing it in their freetime (or as minor, inofficial part of their > non-programming job). > > I'm in camp C and honestly wasn't aware of camp B until now. My guess is that camp B is dead and intentionally so. For the rationale, see for example . It is considered tasteless to even mention camp B. -- David Kastrup