Re: On the popularity of git

[Óscar Fuentes]

Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> writes:

> If a person is "leaving" only because they can't stomach skipping
> through ~20 messages per day, then they'd find a reason to leave anyway.
> And I wouldn't call this type of people valuable, since they don't
> actually contribute anything on account of "leaving" because of every
> little inconvenience.

Glenn Morris is one of the most valuable Emacs hackers (contributing
solid work for very long periods of time.) He left the ml months ago
because this problem with long, wandering threads. IIRC his reasoning
was that the content of emacs-devel is too noisy and reading it achieves
no productive work.

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