From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 18:22:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <419AD153-53B4-4DAB-AF72-4127C17B1CA0@gmail.com> <4A09E719.4090205@gmail.com> <4A0A5BDB.9030602@gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130340q596043d5g45b342b62fe20e8d@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130341g516c899fsdc6b50a45381d4c6@mail.gmail.com> <76718490905130642h792e9701sf2ec7fbf2e7de96a@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0905130644u7e22bde4ta97616a4ed8be1e0@mail.gmail.com> <76718490905130650u4d047e13pa73e0a96289c452a@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130657q2de9686q683fea84345a6651@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: John Tapsell , Jay Soffian , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 13 18:23:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M4HEi-00043q-F4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 18:23:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758156AbZEMQXG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756767AbZEMQXE (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:04 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46707 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752128AbZEMQXB (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:01 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 May 2009 16:23:00 -0000 Received: from cbg-off-client.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO intel-tinevez-2-302.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.11.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 13 May 2009 18:23:00 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18yZh01EwgyIiNX/jCZRzSzFfherW/utp0AI89acO ZFJp8P6qNn3vkI X-X-Sender: schindel@intel-tinevez-2-302 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 13 May 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > > > I'm as much of an open source developer as anyone else here. I spend > > a huge amount of my time programming for KDE. But I've never told a > > user "well that settles it" because they won't code it themselves :-/ > > I certaintly get a huge number of bug/wishes that I can't/won't code > > myself, but I try to be a bit more diplomatic about it. > > > > But then the kernel mailing lists tend to be a lot more.. direct.. > > than the kde mailing lists, so I guess it comes from that. Requiring > > people to have a thick skin and all that. > > This is not the kernel mailing list. In fact this list is quite > friendlier and accommodating that the kernel list. > > The remark alluded above comes from _one_ of the git developers. And > Dscho is apparently in a rather sad mood these days. While the substance > of Dscho's remark is entirely pertinent, it would be wrong to use its > form and style as a characterization of git developers in general. Even if I were in a better mood, the whole thread has a back story on an msysGit issue, and this led me to try to stop what I feared would become a rather long mail thread without much of an outcome, such as that infamous thread about MacOSX UTF-8 filename handling. Alas, it seems that Robin is willing to work on the issues, so my fears have been totally and completely unfounded. Ciao, Dscho