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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:07:12 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > This is a typical modern open-source project. It's not even a
> > particularly large one -- no more than a dozen core devs, 58
> > developers total.
>
> A striking difference with Emacs. We never had such a large group of
> active developers.
Really? How interesting. Makes me proportionately more important to
Emacs than I thought I was. :-)
The old-timers on this list should be asking themselves why, when Emacs
is so undeniably important, it can't attract as many developers as a
mere fantasy game.
One of the ways the hacker community has changed as it has grown is that
project populations are rather larger on average than they used to be.
I see this as a direct effect of sites like SourceForge, Berlios,
Gna!, Savannah, etc. which make it easier to coordinare larger dev groups.
The Emacs project, though, is still operating at a scale and tempo I
think of as being typical of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I think
we are limited by poor tools, and by habits of thought derived from
those poor tools.
I'd like to help that change.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/30
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/30
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Leo, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/30
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Mike Mattie, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Nick Roberts, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31