Open Stack

On 26 October 2013 08:40, Dolph Mathews <dolph.mathews at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
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>>
>> *) They help casual contributors *more* than long time core
>> contributors : and those are the folk that are most likely to give up
>> and walk away. Keeping barriers to entry low is an important part of
>> making OpenStack development accessible to new participants.
>
>
> This is an interesting point. My reasoning for removing them was that I've
> never seen *anyone* working to maintain them, or to add them to files where
> they're missing. However, I suspect that the users benefiting from them
> simply aren't deeply enough involved with the project to notice or care
> about the inconsistency?

Thats my hypothesis too.

> I'm all for low barriers of entry, so if there's
> any evidence that this is true, I'd want to make them more prolific.

I'm not sure how to gather evidence for this, either for or against ;(.

-Rob

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