Re: how the FreeBSD project gets its "core members"

[Jean-Louis Leroy]

Interesting. It strikes me that the procedure resulted in a core that
is more English-speaking, more US. I wonder why? Is it that the ratio
of English,US committers has increased over time?

I know that any discussion I hold in anything other than French costs
me extra efforts. If the discussion is an argument, held in English,
with/against a native English speaker, I start with an obvious
handicap. If the argument becomes aggressive or literary, the handicap
can become quite huge.

I'm not saying that this explains the shift in the BSD core; I don't
have enough data. But I wonder what would happen if the same procedure
were applied to Perl.

And, before anybody shoots me with a "what are you suggesting?
quotas?", let me say, no, that is not my proposal. Let's not spread
the Belgian disease <gg> Proposals I have none...
-- 
Jean-Louis Leroy
http://users.skynet.be/jll