On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:05 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:22 PM Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Am 30.12.2020 um 20:07 schrieb Felipe Contreras
> > > > <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > > Precisely. So if you think being "conservative" with what data is
> > > > being collected is a good thing, then you do that. (Others might do
> > > > s/conservative/paranoid/ to describe the situation
> > >
> > > Well this is how this project works.
> >
> > Yes, it works by not giving credit to contributors.
>
> There are credits for many contributors all over the place.
There are some credits, for some of the contributions, of some of the
contributors. Not all, not even most.
Can you point me to the actual diff of any contribution of anybody
other than you?
> > The vim project simply doesn't do what the Git project does; give
> > attribution.
>
> You appear to only look at Github.
I'm most definitely not. I'm looking at git:
git -C git shortlog -n --no-merges -s v2.29.0..v2.30.0
That gives me 83 contributors. for a period of 2 months.
git -C vim shortlog -n --no-merges -s v8.1.0000..v8.2.0
That gives me 2 contributors, for a period of more than 2 years.
2500 Bram Moolenaar
1 Christian Brabandt
> That is just one of the many places where software development
> happens. And one of the many ways software development can be done.
GitHub is not a software development "way"; it's a code hosting
provider, and I'm not even looking at it.
> There is no "one right way". Just popular
> and less popular ways, and it changes over time.
No. There are objectively better and worse ways of doing things.
For example; we are replying in interleaved style [1], but some people
use top-posting. Do you think both styles are equally "right"? Or is
one way objectively better than the other?
> If someone would like to be credited, just ask.
Contributors shouldn't need to ask the project to do the right thing,
just like you shouldn't ask your neighbors to not play loud music at 3
A.M.
> I think most people are just happy we responded and fixed
> their problem or added a feature.
Yes, that's not an argument against doing the right thing; give credit
where credit is due.
> Also, some people don't want to be mentioned.
If these people actually exist, they can simply request to not be mentioned.
You don't make rules to inconvenience 99.99% of the population. You
inconvenience the minority, but still accommodate it. Some people may
be rich enough that they don't need or want a salary, but you don't
make 99.99% of the workers request their salary every month.
It's the minority that should opt-out of the most common behavior.
Cheers.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
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