Nicely put, Eric! In fact I'm glad for Mario to come over and wave hands like crazy. Such a behaviour from (presumably) an official GNU representative discredits Savannah from consideration of a hosting platform for my future open source projects. There's still too many platforms to choose from so thanks, Mario, to narrowing down the list and making the decision a bit easier ;-)
Michal On 04/19/2010 08:49 AM, Weddington, Eric wrote: > > We understand that there are hosting requirements for a project on Savannah. > I don't even think that we have objections to them, even if we find one or > two of them a bit silly, and that overall we would be willing to comply in > some manner. > > I do think that there are several other issues here that need to be addressed: > > 1. Identify who you are. I don't this Mario person at all. It would be > helpful if he identified who he is, what organization is he from, and what > the purpose of the email. Otherwise he comes across as every other > opinionated person in the public, who would be duly ignored if he > communicated that way. > > 2. Try to have reasonably good English. If you're an admin, and speaking as > an authority from some group, then it is helpful to have at least decent > spelling. I understand that English is not everyone's first language; I > regularly work on many free and open source projects with people from all > around the world with varying degrees of command of the language. But with > that many spelling errors in the email, I was beginning to wonder if this was > a troll. > > 3. Be specific. One should read Eric Raymond's "How to Ask Questions the > Smart Way": <http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>. If you're going > to tell us that something is wrong with the project, then please be specific > as to what is wrong so we don't have to play "20 questions" to guess where it > is at. Like all volunteer developers our time is always limited, and the more > detailed you can be, the easier it is for us to fix it. Or maybe if someone > is really motivated, patches are always welcome. ;-) > > 4. Which brings me to my next point: DO NOT GO AND CHANGE ANYTHING ON THE > PROJECT WITHOUT PERMISSION! This was *way over the line* and heavy-handed. > The point is to communicate with us first! Give us time to work out the > issues and get things fixed. If you come across as a dictator, then that > makes us feel like our project is not welcome, and we *will* move elsewhere. > > Bottom line: If you are unreasonable, then it gives us no incentive to be > reasonable back. If you are reasonable, we will work towards fixing any > perceived problems. > > Eric Weddington > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: >> [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected] >> rg] On Behalf Of Sylvain Beucler >> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:10 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: [avrdude-dev] Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Hosting >> requirements inavrdude >> >> Hi all, >> >> Hmm, it looks like the situation somewhat got out of hands. >> Apologizes if you felt the request was worded unpolitely. >> >> We'll discuss the problem and come back to you in a while to clarify >> the situation. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Sylvain >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> avrdude-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > avrdude-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev > _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
