On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:50:55AM -0800, Deirdre Straughan wrote:
> Ideally, we would also keep an eye on the list for newbie FAQs, and answer
> them on the wiki in a systematic fashion. I hope that the new wiki will
> make it a little easier for community members to contribute documentation
> of various sorts.
All of this talk about newbies reminds me of an important tip:
Be nice to newbies.
It's hard sometimes, I know. There's a bug open right now where I'm arguing
a different way of solving a problem. A naive response would be to flame the
original solution, ("I've been playing with this code a long time... blah
blah blah"), but I really want to acknowledge the original discovery of the
problem as valued as well. It's hard, because sometimes people think
rejecting an implementation means rejecting the overall contribution.
If our mailing lists are nice to newbies, it will help their respective
communities grow.
Dan
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