On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00 +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > > I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people > > who are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for > > involvement in Debian. > > I believe that it *should* be a requirement that one has enough calm > to most of the time respond to (percieved or actual) aggression and > insults in a less aggressive and insulting way than the other party > uses. Otherwise the project will surely die (film at 11!) from runaway > flamewar escalation. > > If you want to describe that as "thick-skinned enough to cope" (which, > based on my understanding of English, would not be a bad description), > then yes, somebody involved in Debian *should* be thick-skinned > enough to cope.
Indeed. Even if all of us start to behave ourselves and avoid nasty flamewars (ha! in your dreams! :P), we still have to deal with the occassional bugreporter of Barbaric Communication School For 1337 People (the `f**k you, this piece of s***e doesn't work, go fix it or I'll be REAL angry and how you dare you release such a [EMAIL PROTECTED]' kind). It can help a lot when one can reply to such reports calmly and in a civilized manner. And a thick skin certainly helps a lot here. > > Shouldn't we be more interested in someone's technical skills, and > > their ability to work well with others? > > I'm lost here. It seems that you are arguing that you *don't* want > "ability to work well with others" (which in my book includes enough > thick-skinnedness not to escalate flamewars) to count? Same here.. If we ignore internal agression, one still needs a thick enough skin (although, a bit thinner as otherwise) to deal with occassional agression originating from outside (be that a bug report, a Debian or linux-flaming article somewhere on the net, etc), preferably calmly, without having ones blood pressure rise to unhealthy heights. -- Gergely Nagy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]