On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 8:43 AM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Josh Boyer wrote:
> Ah. May or may not. That gives me hope at least.
Well, considering that we have hundreds of existing contributors, who all
may or may not be willing to adapt to a platform that is clearly not
designed for them (Discourse is very strongly newbie-centric, see the
"achievements" and all the other hand-holding), I think it is safe to assume
that several important contributors WILL leave, tone down their
participation, and/or miss some important communication (leading to breakage
in the distribution, e.g., broken dependencies making it into Rawhide) if
Fedora makes the switch.
> I don't think it's a double standard. I think people that already
> know how Fedora development and contribution works are inherently in a
> better position to adapt to something new, whereas net-new
> contributors are unlikely to even start based on an email driven
> practice.
And as I already answered, I think this is completely backwards. If you want
to newly join a project, you learn their way to do things and adapt to it.
If, on the other hand, you are already involved in a project and have
workflows that work for you, any forced change to something perceived as a
regression will annoy you and make you want to leave.
I think you and I fundamentally disagree on this and that's OK. I'm
not trying to convince you. I was trying to understand your stance on
why you'd potentially leave and express the reasons why I think it's
worth it.
We'll have to end our conversation here, because we've both stated
clearly where we stand and I respect that you and I are simply not
aligned. Thank you for your thoughts.
josh