Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Talha Yalta wrote:
You don't have a thousand developers (and thousands of function
packages) without that one million users.
You have a point here. Numbers are important, but composition is important
too. Take a project like, say, gnuplot or gnumeric. Would you think
that, if their user base magically increased by 50%, the number of
contributors would automatically increase by 50%? What makes you think
that the elasticity is 1?
If you think that one
million is not important, then don't complain gretl is not becoming
"mainstream". Also, "a larger pool of people who can give valuable
contributions to the project in terms of features" surely includes
those people who contribute by translating and localizing.
This is absolutely true.
This is a laborious effort which becomes less meaningful by those who
want to use gretl with "their beloved decimal comma", and who
surprisingly start finding out that, according to some developers'
not-so-humble opinions, gretl would gain little with their using of and
contributions to gretl.
Talha, I am somewhat under the impression that you've developed a sort of
obsession with this comma thing. Could we try to bring the discussion to a
more general level?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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