"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > So from an open source project perspective, which is primarily run by > volunteers, each open source project has to make a cost-benefit > tradeoff as far as the *project* is concerned. Individuals do not > have a fundamental human right to contribute to a project. Hence, the > open source project doesn't owe an obligation to spend a huge amount > of effort supporting some kind of forge web site just because some > potential contributors are clammoring for it. Especially if they are > saying that they can't be bothered to follow the mailing list traffic > because it's somehow too much. Thanks for saying this (even though with my Devil's advocate hat on, I am not sure how strong our "this is run by volunteers, so do not demand" card is these days). > (Of course, I have all of the Linux kernel mailing list flowing into > my inbox, and have e-mail practices that can handle that load --- so > it's hard for me to have much sympathy about people complaining that > the e-mail load for git is too large --- compared to LKML, it's > *nothing*. :-) True, too. We may have enough patch traffic but not enough reviews on them.
