From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modern Git GUI
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce651001250630p51761f6eyce8b89da6ffcd7b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001251524190.8733@intel-tinevez-2-302>
2010/1/25 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> If you decide to go on with your project, either you want to carry it
>> out alone, or you'll have to convince other developers to join. In the
>> second case, a good starting point would be to explain why the other GUI
>> are not good enough, and why you can't just contribute to them.
>
> Actually, a much better way would be to be positive, not negative. I.e.
> to show something you did, which hopefully entices others to use your
> project (and maybe contribute to it).
Actually in this case, I don't think that would be good enough. My
first thought would be "why didn't he just add this feature to an
existing GUI rather than reinventing the wheel yet again". So there
would really have to be good reasons why the other GUIs aren't a good
enough starting point
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-23 21:40 Modern Git GUI André Harms
2010-01-24 9:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-01-24 20:43 ` André Harms
2010-01-25 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-25 14:30 ` John Tapsell [this message]
2010-01-26 11:35 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-01-26 22:39 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2010-01-28 15:11 ` Maxime Lévesque
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