On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:18 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: > On 08/02/2006, at 5:13 AM, Shaun McCance wrote (in conclusion): > > > Also, I know it's become popular lately on Planet Gnome > > and desktop-devel-list to be hostile and accusational, > > and to call things stupid and call people names. But I > > will not have it on my list. > > Thankyou, Shaun, I support this strongly. > > During a discussion (on another list) of barriers to participation > for new volunteers, both male and female, I received a large number > of personal emails stating that hostile, accusational and belittling > behaviour was extremely off-putting, and had resulted in the writer > not participating on the lists and in the projects where it occurred.
Here here ! How about a GNOME niceness charter, something like the Wikipedia Neutral Point Of View ? Well, not really, but I've been following several mailing lists since I started contributing, and I find many attitudes worse than counter productive. That said, most people are very very nice. Love, Karderio _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
