Gerald Henriksen wrote in <[email protected]>: |On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:25:52 +0200, you wrote: | |>Gerald Henriksen wrote in <[email protected]>: |>|If DragonFly is to continue on as a viable project it needs to attract |>|new participants who are not just willing to help with running a mail |>|server, but with actually contributing to the project by porting |>|software - whether it be just getting packages working, creating new |>|packages, or getting things like Bluetooth and Nvidia working on |>|Dragonfly. |>| |>|Regardless of what we all think, email is dead to the newer generation |>|of developers and a requirement to use an email list to join DragonFly |>|merely ensures that any younger developers looking for an opensource |>|opportunity look elsewhere. |> |>Well, they use it when they want to go Linux. Why should they |>fail to use it when going DragonFly? That does not sound logical. | |At least one Linux distribution has discussed the idea of moving, for
Oh, i was talking about the Kernel. I mean, i have no real idea, the listing still mentions that bugs shall go over the ML, though they seem to prefer Bugzilla for that, .. but nonetheless. |the same reason - the difficulty of attracting new contributors given |the disdain for email from the younger generation. And i saw (the abstract of) that article on lwn.net regarding the community "finally shall move away" (or similar). But which lwn.net strengthened with the attribute "lengthy blog post" i seem to recall. Hm. |And similar to here, pushback from the existing community has made it |unlikely - with of course the problem that they aren't solving the |getting new contributors problem that plagues most opensource |projects. | |>I think it is a mess! | |I'm happy with email, and while I don't have the aversion to web based |solutions I had in the past - I merely find them tolerable - I am also |not in the position of attempting to attract new blood into a project. Me too, me too. I was talking about "i would drive Range Rover if i could take the responsibility". Thirty years later i am drowning in SUVs here, bah. (And those cannot even go all-terrain, but that is something different.) Etc., etc. --End of <[email protected]> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
