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Re:Emacs and Magit by josteink on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:35AM (#14819573)
> If it were part of Emacs you'd need to use the FSF's collaboration tools which have a higher barrier of entry

I've lost count of how many projects I've contributed to, due to how easy Github makes submitting a patch.

Contrast that to contributing to Emacs: I can't recall a single time I tried to send in a change-proposal without regretting it, seeing it fan out for weeks in endless mailing lists discussions and more often than not end up going nowhere.

If Magit ends up under FSF ownership and the Github repo is discontinued, I'll just assume the number of contributors will plummet. At least that sounds like the most likely outcome.

Here's hoping for the best.

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Re:Emacs and Magit by torrent-of-ions on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:14AM (#14819744)
That has little to do with Github vs mailing list and much to do with the maintainers and the type of project. Github has lots of immature projects with single developers. Of course submitting a patch to emacs is going to be more difficult. I've had absolutely no problem contributing to parts of emacs (org-mode to be specific).
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Re:Emacs and Magit by adekok on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:10AM (#14819725)
If they make it harder to contribute, you're guaranteed to get fewer contributions.
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