[off-topic; what happened/happens to your series is entirely unrelated to the issue] Felipe Contreras wrote: > Nobody knows how life began, and it doesn't matter now, what matters > is how life evolves. It doesn't matter if the chicken was first, or > the egg, what matters is that if all the chickens and eggs are gone, > there won't be more. > > Plenty of projects have died because they stopped caring about their > users, and without users there's no new developers, and the old > developers eventually move on, and all the literary quality of commit > messages have no eyes to see it. I was a pure end-user of git until about Jan 2010. I was initially impressed with git because it behaved in a beautiful consistent manner. Then I dug in and found out that it had a beautiful codebase, excellent mailing list (content and conventions), and large development community. I could literally read through the commit messages and code with ease. I do bounce between a few projects, but always come back to git because nothing else fits the criterion. What I do not consider (as much as the other things) is the number-of-end-users. Then again, you would argue that I came across git only because of a large enough user-base. I agree with that, but you're practically idolizing user-base as the most important thing. My point is simple: yes, it's nice to have a big user base. We already do. Now, what's the point of pitching to end-users who only use the most basic functionality? Their inputs are likely to be useless (arising from misunderstandings) anyway. They're not going to be the next developers. And they're not going to help create what our next developer is looking for in us either (i.e. codebase, community). Our primary customers are each other, because that's how we get a tight community and great codebase. And because the next potential developer looks like one of us. That does _not_ mean: live only within the community. Everyone should have a healthy interaction with the outside world, otherwise they risk turning into researchers and suffering engineering myopia. And ofcourse not attract a large userbase. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html