From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Mention "git blame" improvements in release notes Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:26:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2g142uy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1398470210-28746-1-git-send-email-dak@gnu.org> <1398470210-28746-2-git-send-email-dak@gnu.org> <7vmwf8huey.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87zjj86j4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4yp4ame.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , "git\@vger.kernel.org" To: Ronnie Sahlberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 28 22:26:53 2014 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 1Wes8a-0006Ig-5P for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:26:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756188AbaD1U0r convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:26:47 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:42778 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752338AbaD1U0r convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:26:47 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41819 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wes8U-0005TY-74; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:26:46 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB8D4E05FE; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:26:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Ronnie Sahlberg's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:05:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ronnie Sahlberg writes: > Some projects, for example samba, provide a dedicated page on the > project web site > where vendors, and I think individuals, that provide services can lis= t > their information : > > http://www.samba.org/samba/support/ > > Would this perhaps be a better solution? Actually, it does not work for my situation at all but then my situatio= n is likely not typical enough to be worth catering for specifically. The salient point with me is that my productivity drops by more than a factor of 100 (no, that's not an exaggeration) when having to do something I'm not interested in. Which is the reason my deal with GNU LilyPond where I'm (interrupted by the git-blame episode) basically lead programmer is that LilyPond users give me whatever money they consider my work to be worth to them, and i= n return I work on whatever I like on LilyPond. Nobody gets to say _what= _ I=A0do, and that's to the best of everyone's interest since only that w= ay a reasonable amount of work actually gets done. So I cannot actually provide "services for hire" but it's more like a "themed money sink" I=A0can offer. And in the case of Git, since it do= es not even appear that there is a continuing base to make it work reasonably in the context of other contributors and their interests, it's more like "oops, I ended up wasting months on your project, but at least there was something to show for it from my side, how about yours?". That's not something one can reasonably put on a "support" themed page. It's actually bloody ridiculous but then that's the sort of handicap I=A0have to organize my life around. Even while it's unpredictable what I=A0end up doing, once I do get something done it te= nds to be pretty good (there are a few old performance patches of mine in the Git code base where I did not start out from what happens to be pretty awful code and still got considerable return). --=20 David Kastrup