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Dnia 2020-08-19, o godz. 23:48:26
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> napisa=C5=82(a):

> Jan Wielkiewicz, le lun. 17 ao=C3=BBt 2020 01:33:41 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > I know. That still does not mean I understand the *reasoning*.
> > >=20
> > Life is often about accidents, not about reasoning.
>=20
> Discovering something by accident, yes. But deciding to have a look at
> some project only because the website is all shiny, no, I do not
> understand. Actually almost the contrary in my case, if I see a shiny
> website telling me "this is great software!", I become all wary, for
> fear of overzealous marketting.
Don't worry, no marketing, I hate marketing myself.
My favorite example of malicious marketing is Apple telling its
customers about privacy :)
Let's just encourage contributors a bit and show the *actual* state of
the project on the website - updated news and a link to commits will do.

> > > Which headaches precisely?
> > I mean a situation where we reorganise everything and no one knows
> > where something is located.
>=20
> Please keep more mail context, I had to dig back on this one. I still
> don't understand what you mean here.

Nevermind, nothing important, I just can't explain it in English.

> > > Again, that's only my own opinion, and what my limited amount of
> > > free time can permit, I'm sorry that it looks so negative. If
> > > other people can help with this, feel free, it's an open project,
> > > I'm just warning what I have seen happening in the past decade.
> > We'll experiment with the page in a private git repository and if
> > the results will be good, we will think about the rest later.
>=20
> Great!
>=20
> Samuel


Jan Wielkiewicz