On Mi, 30 Dez 2020, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 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 is irrelevant here. > > 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 As has been mentioned, the --author is not used here. Credits are given in the commit message. Check those. Or check the help page. > > > 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. objective by what standards? And who are you to dictate what workflows are used by a project that is 30 years old? > 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? That is an interesting question. Because the interleaved style has lost already which I think is (at least) partially caused by people starting to use smartphones to read and answer mails. You may not like it, but it is by no means the "objective" better way. Best, Christian -- Hallo Häkelschwester! -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20201231083952.GE31350%40256bit.org.
