On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:42:23AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 18:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > It feels to me like you're spending lots of time telling other people > > they're wrong and telling other people what they should be spending time > > on, and then arguing with anyone who tells you that how you're going about > > this isn't effective. > Well isn't that somehow the point of discussion and defending one's > opinions?
Merely defending one's opinions is a recipe for long threads. A good, productive discussion about Debian development requires understanding other people's arguments, evaluating one's own point of view, and adapting it to produce an improved synthesis position, and iterating this a few times to end up with a consensus of an accurate mental model of reality and a realistic plan of action, which can be worked on, preferably by named people, who agree to it. Such a discussion benefits greatly from empathy, sympathy, good will, and the lack of a conviction that one is right. -- http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers http://obnam.org/ -- HAVE YOU BACKED UP TODAY? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141016054147.gr21...@exolobe1.liw.fi
