Re:Mailing lists vs Github
by kazinator on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:46AM
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The author never reveals the reason why he or she didn't contribute to a mailing-list driven project.
You're only assuming that it's the difficulty of copy and pasting a patch into an e-mail and clicking send; no such thing is written in the blog.
People who are motivated to hack on a program will usually find a way to submit.
Only programmers who've never been employed balk at using e-mail. If someone won't send me a patch because they are afraid of e-mail, that tells me they've never accepted a meeting request or submitted a status report. What else do they find "too hard"? Testing the code?
You're only assuming that it's the difficulty of copy and pasting a patch into an e-mail and clicking send; no such thing is written in the blog.
People who are motivated to hack on a program will usually find a way to submit.
Only programmers who've never been employed balk at using e-mail. If someone won't send me a patch because they are afraid of e-mail, that tells me they've never accepted a meeting request or submitted a status report. What else do they find "too hard"? Testing the code?