On Wed Mar 30, 2022 at 9:53 AM CEST, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Very true. But the infrasystemwork was mostly done already by others on the > other (website) side so we didn't have to do a lot of work to get CI jobs and > stuff to work on GitHub. It was thus also going with the least resistance. > Going to where the devs are too.
fwiw I addressed "going to where the devs are too" in a blog post I wrote (partially) inspired by being reminded that cURL is on GitHub. You might find it insightful (or maybe flamebait): https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html A project at the scale and ubiquity of cURL would probably have no problems finding contributors on any platform, including PR-oriented platforms like Gitea or GitLab, but also pretty much anything else including mailing lists, gerrit, etc. You have a lot of social capital to work with. However, the investment you've made in GitHub will be expensive to unmake. > From what I can tell, most developers these days frown upon email and prefer > to develop thing PR-style anyway so I've personally felt very little > motivation to work on adding fancy mailinglist-focused tools to support a way > of working that is slowly dying anyway. You live in your bubble, I live in mine. cURL is on GitHub so you mostly work with people who like to use GitHub, or at least tolerate it. My projects are via email so I mostly work with people who like to use email, or at least tolerate it. There's not much useful information to derive from this observation. What I can say for sure is that there are still a lot of people who *want* to use email, just as there are those who want to use GitHub. > I'm sorry you take it this way. > > I'm a pragmatic. If this change is good and meant to happen, then someone > else > will make it so. Now or later. I certainly hope so. -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
