On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:23 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote: > I have personally had the feeling over the past couple of years that the > general atmosphere in the GNOME community has hardened. > I don't think its has hardened as much as grown older. Going back 5 years we where 'all' in our early/mid twenties or late teens with a lot extra energy and exploring a new frontier. Today a lot of the same people are around, getting close to or having passed thirty. Hair is thinning, greying or receding, bellies growing and the long term effect of a coke and pizza diet is taking its toll on both mind and body. These people have grown wise with age, but also their patience and energy to help newbie number 1000 who asks a less informed question have fallen.
So answers tend either to not be forthcoming or being short often feeling a bit curt, maybe just a 'sorry WONTFIX'. The regrowth of younger developers, who might have the energy to devote to helping the lost noobs, tend to want to defer answering questions to the old wizards in the fear of saying something wrong as things have also grown more complicated since those early days. I don't think we can solve this apart from enforcing retirement from the community once passed 30 to keep our average young and energetic :) Christian _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
