From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Bashing freelancers (was: [ANNOUNCE] Git Merge Contributors Summit, April 8th, Paris) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:41:40 +0100 Message-ID: <8761aeowff.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20150224220923.GA23344@peff.net> <54F986D6.5000607@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 06 18:41:48 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 1YTwFu-0005QP-Ij for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:41:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754456AbbCFRlm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:41:42 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:35457 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753523AbbCFRll (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:41:41 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34499 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTwFo-00089U-Pp; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:41:41 -0500 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4CBEBE6836; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:41:40 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:03:28 -0800") 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: Junio C Hamano writes: > Of course, I am hoping that all the mentors are doing GSoC not for > money but out of love of our software and our community, At some point of time I think it may be worth reevaluating the toxic atmosphere against freelancers doing Git development. There is nothing wrong with not having a fixed employment paying the rent. And there is nothing to be gained by going out of one's way vilifying those who cannot afford to work for free. Good work is worth good money. Suggesting that people who are not able to work for free are morally inferior is not conducive for a cooperative work atmosphere. I still have patches sitting in my repository that I could not bring myself to finish for contribution after the shameful treatment of my months of git-blame work where I was credited in passing with a wrong name in one "What's cooking", and after I pointed out that not even my name was correct, removed altogether. All that in connection with public shaming that I wanted to point out to end users that this work required financing if it were to continue. -- David Kastrup