On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Overall comment about your mail: I think such threads are *asking* to > cause a > flamewar. Pick lots of random, unrelated stuff, and complain about its > state - > the "lots of" guarantees that you'll make as many developers feel affected > negatively as possible. So you'll have lots of stressed people arguing, > which > is the recipe for a flamewar.
I'll respond to Arne's initial email in a minute, but just on this - I feel that as a project we have to be able to point out problems honestly without causing people to get defensive. Now perhaps part of this responsibility is on the part of the person pointing out the problem, they need to be diplomatic, and part of the problem is on the other side, where people need to try to interpret criticism as help, rather than taking it personally. Most other projects manage this, I mean, almost every bug report could potentially be interpreted as criticism of someone's work, and yet for whatever reason that doesn't seem to happen in other projects. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Blog: http://blog.locut.us/ _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
