On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:00:51 EET DJ Delorie wrote: > a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > > You make the incorrect assumption that the health of the GNU project > > should be measured in how many new projects are adopted or released -- > > instead of what our goal is to provide a free operating system. > > Are we DONE producing that operating system? yep, we're *done*. > No? If not, why not? > Aren't all those developers who finished their packages working on > other, new packages? well, but why they have to? > Why aren't the package counts continuing to > increase, if the developers are otherwise unoccupied? see the question above. > > I think, package activity *is* a valid metric if the goal is "all > packages in the OS are free." no it is *not*. > > If a set of developers finish a package, and don't start on a new one, I > think that says something interesting about the health of GNU and its > community. nope. it says about a lot of things, but it's not about health. creating some stupid "gnu social contract" isn't a healthy thing. > > _______________________________________________ > Hangout mailing list > hang...@nylxs.com > http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout
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