From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Offer for taking over maintainership Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:24:38 +0530 Message-ID: <87621vnm9t.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878v6s13yo.fsf@gmail.com> <87halfrxer.fsf@yahoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5xP2-0004jq-Eo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:55:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5xP0-00076z-Sv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:55:00 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com ([209.85.160.50]:51305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U5xP0-00076o-MR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:54:58 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id up1so138547pbc.37 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:54:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87halfrxer.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:40:28 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nicolas Richard Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org What Free Software needs is contributors and a good outlet. For Orgmode, the latter problem is solved because Emacs serves as a good and well-known and well-respected clearing house. Recruit more contributors. Get out of the way of existing contributors. Ignore, just plain ignore the riffraff. I challenge the common understanding of the "importance" of Community. They don't need to be fed. They come and stay becauase of their own interests. Searching for and retaining markets is not a problem that a FLOSS project should focus on. DTRT and rest is inevitable. --