On 10/15/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In response to "Daniel Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On 10/15/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.potentialtech.com/cms/node/48
> > >
> > > Hope that article doesn't come across as too harsh, but I really feel
> > > like it needed to be said.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bill Moran
> > > http://www.potentialtech.com
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> > >
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > Since your blog post didn't allow comments, I'm submitting the
> > original message thread in question right here:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 3, 2007 6:59 am, Crayon wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 03 May 2007 03:18, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, May 2, 2007 1:14 pm, Bill Moran wrote:
> > >>> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39062
> > >>
> > >>> This discussion may be better placed on "Internals" where the people
> > >>> who make these decisions hang out more...
> > >>
> > >> Maybe Bill wanted us lowly users to know that the all powerful
> > >> developers
> > >> aren't listening to their users.
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > > Some of them are definitely listening here.
> >
> > > And all of them are trying to juggle needs/demands/desires of an
> > > enormous community with more variety than, errr, dog species?
> >
> > > Lord knows I'm not real happy with some of the decisions/directions,
> > > but you know what? Anybody *really* unhappy that cares enough can get
> > > off their butt and start submitting patches, and push things a
> > > different direction. Self included, mind you. :-)
> >
> > It seems to me that Lynch was actually just saying, "you seem as
> > though you have the technical know-how, so jump in feet-first and
> > let's get going!" It wasn't "ripping [you] a new one", as you
> > suggested in your post, unless your "old one" was that defective in
> > the first place and was inadvertently replaced by the "new one". ;-P
> >
> > Before you make a public post demeaning the community that drives
> > the project you are using, no doubt, to help put food on your table,
> > why not take a moment to read this fantastic Wikipedia article:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
>
> Are you implying that I'm being inappropriately sarcastic, or that I'm
> misunderstanding sarcasm when it's used?
>
> Thanks for pulling out your original reply. I intended to post a link
> to the message thread, but today's been crazy. Hopefully I'll find time
> to update that post later this week. Now that you've reminded me, you
> _were_ one of the people who responded in a positive manner.
>
> It's possible that the focus of the article is off, as I wasn't as much
> interested in the mild misunderstandings that occurred on the mailing
> list. The two things I'm frustrated by are:
>
> 1) The use of "not a bug" to close things that look like bugs with no
> further explanation
> 2) The fact that I submitted a fix to a bug 2 weeks ago and nobody has
> even acknowledged it.
>
> Of course, any time you attempt to levy constructive criticism, it's
> liable to be misunderstood. The fact that you're calling it
> "demeaning" is hard evidence that's already happened. My goal here
> is for others to understand the problem, otherwise, nothing can be done
> about it.
>
> As far as the "public" posting, I assure you that hardly anybody reads
> my blog :) http://www.potentialtech.com/awstats/awstats.pl
> (yes, stats collection has been broken for the past week, but you can
> see several months of demonstration that nobody cares what I think :)
>
> Additionally, I think this discussion is of general interest to all
> open source groups. A good friend of mine at CMU has been studying
> open source groups and how they attract contributors, and how they
> sometimes scare them away. My opinion is that the lack of response
> from core developers is going to make contributors think their time
> is better spend elsewhere, and I'd prefer _not_ to see that happen.
>
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> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
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I feel a bit weird to be the person to bring this up, but im not quite sure
why you are directing your irritation at the PHP Community. Your post makes
it sound like its the only community that says such things, and im quite
certain that the number of communities with open, and closed, source
development all leave much to be said for being friendly because i have been
part of many of them. I can understand why you are irritated and feel
brushed off, but thats what happened and you shouldn't think that writing a
blog entry about it and posting it to the internals mailing list is going to
lead to drastic change from within, because the fact still remains that
these people are our puppeteers. They are developers just as we are, most
with "real jobs" and responsibilities to boot. if you have a bug to be fixed
you may very well have thought of something as being a bug which really
isn't. Taking something like that to heart though seems tired and
unnecessary.
