On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Timothy P. Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a Summer of Code student this year (so, not a /real/ E developer), > and I was planning on keeping my head entirely out of this > conversation, but each email makes that more and more difficult. So > I've decided to express my _opinion_ on the matter of the E community > (I'm have no preference in the license wars, and I will *not* choose a > side). > > I've come to realize that the E community might not be as healthy as > it appears from the outside; it certainly isn't as /large/ as it > appears, nor as large as it would need to be in order to sustain a > codebase of this size and expand its user base (as I assume one of the > goals of the project is). > > However, it is my opinion that this is, in fact, *not* a license > issue, nor a quality issue, or anything of that matter - the simple > fact is, you *are* losing potential developers with arguments like > this (and the rest from weeks past). They notice the amount of time > the 'community' spends on things like this (among other issues), and > move on to other projects. I know this, because I know a handful of > said developers, and the fact that they decided not to work on E > saddens me, but I cannot find fault in their argument; I'm sorry. > > Anyway - here's to a speedy resolution of this, and millions more > lines of working, usable, use*ful* code.
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