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 the same reason - the difficulty of attracting new contributors given the disdain for email from the younger generation. 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.
