From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <8fe92b430710081355i7d3dbaa2q9a8939b55d7ca7dc@mail.gmail.com> <8fe92b430710121508g13917080mac156250abfccf20@mail.gmail.com> <853awepyz6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20071013202713.GA2467@fieldses.org> <20071014014445.GN27899@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Johannes Schindelin , "J. Bruce Fields" , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 14 05:40:06 2007 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 1IguKj-0006G1-4p for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:40:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754489AbXJNDjz (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:39:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754736AbXJNDjz (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:39:55 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:39425 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753030AbXJNDjy (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:39:54 -0400 Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l9E3dUNa030840; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:39:30 -0700 X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But at the same time, just accepting that there are people who will > potentially never really be productive members of society (whether > "society" is git or something bigger), is probably a good idea. They > aren't worth complaining about: they don't generally tend to take anything > away from the community unless the community itself reacts negatively to > them. I'll also point out that being a 'productive member of society' may have a wider definition then you may think initially. is a sysadmin who never contribures a line of code, but switches hundreds of servers to linux and assists friends in migrating to Linux a productive member? he doesn't contribute any code, so some people would say no, but in spreading the use he is increasing the number of potential contributers so others would say yes. keep this in mind before you assume that someone isn't worth anything. David Lang