Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-27 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:23:38PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >> > The arguments are another problem that lessens the feeling of >> > teamwork. We should be able to "agree to disagree" -- namely, >> >> I agree, but I have come to realize in the past year tha

Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-27 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > Notwithstanding all the above, I agree that there's a cultural > element to this. Certain nationalities tend to favor blunt, > direct communication: "X is wrong", while others may tend to favor > indirect methods: "I wonder if you could possibly think about X > again".

Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-27 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:23:38PM +0200, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > I agree. I do not believe that saying "it's too hard" is a good > solution. I am more than willing to help people this way - I am > officially naming myself as "New Contributor Czar" and will > propose a patch in an hour tha

Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-25 Thread David Kastrup
"m...@apollinemike.com" writes: >> The last "teamwork" problem is the amount of "monetization" going on. >> I didn't join lilypond to help other people make money off it. I >> don't have any good suggestions for this, but the question asked if I >> was contributing less and this is one reason.

Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-25 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On 25 juin 2012, at 15:48, Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - From: > To: "Devel Dev" > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:23 PM > Subject: My responses to developers' responses > > >> Hey all, >> >> Thank you very much, Colin, fo

Re: My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-25 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: To: "Devel Dev" Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:23 PM Subject: My responses to developers' responses Hey all, Thank you very much, Colin, for organizing these responses. I think GOP2-0 is very important, and as such I'd like to send r

My responses to developers' responses

2012-06-25 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
Hey all, Thank you very much, Colin, for organizing these responses. I think GOP2-0 is very important, and as such I'd like to send responses to certain excerpts from other people's emails. DevC > There's a similar problem with trying to recruit new contributors. > Person 41 says "hey guys, it