On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:18 AM Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote: >...
> I did have some hope that we would see individual self-motivated > contributors > arriving via various ASF projects because they are all using SVN every day > on svn.apache.org, are programmers, might have itches to scratch, already > have > commit access to ^/subversion, and there is some sense of shared ownership > across the ASF community. I was reminded of all this by Graham's remark. > It's the lack of such interactions that I find disappointing in retrospect. > There certainly have been some, but relatively few. > IMO, it is because Subversion is successful. It just works. Zero friction. It doesn't cause developers a headache or an "itch to scratch". One doesn't think to improve their dishwasher. It just works. Why change your hammer? It works. I believe that Subversion hit its goal, and then some. I believe that is why the *use* of Subversion did not lead to a desire to work/fix/change Subversion. Cheers, -g
