On Monday, 5 January 2015 20:57:47 CEST, Frank Reininghaus wrote:
Ultimately, a constant stream of newcomers is the only thing that keeps a free software project alive in the long term.
Yes, as long as these newcomers eventually get enough interest and enough skills to become maintainers. I agree with the importance of getting new blood in, but there's also a need to educate these contributors so that their skills become better over time.
I'm a bit worried that any new patch review system which requires more effort before one can submit a patch for review might put some potential new contributors off.
That's a valid point, so yeah, I agree that we should evaluate our tool(s) in light of being usable by newbies as well as by professionals. Thanks for saying that.
Cheers, Jan -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
