On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Gabriel Hurley <gab...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I finally did submit my first patch, I was terrified of getting > it wrong and having it rejected. I'd seen it happen on other tickets. > It wasn't until I got *more involved* and started keeping up with the > trac timeline--watching the ebb and flow of tickets--that I started to > understand how the tone on trac had a reason. Until you get that > perspective, it's hard to know what's right or wrong, and easy to take > things personally. The core devs can seem imposing or scary simply > because you don't know them.
This is *really* good feedback, and thank you very much for it. Clearly scaring people isn't our intent, but if that's the result... well, we're doing something wrong. I really don't want people to be scared off, and I'm hearing from you and a few others that that's already happening. I don't think I need to enumerate why the tone on a ticket tracker tends towards the terse -- lack of time, repetition, yadayada -- but regardless I don't like our process being scary. > If anything, my point is that getting started as a Django contributor > *can* be difficult, and the core team just being aware of that fact is > a good thing. I hear you loud and clear, and I'd love any suggestions you might have about how we might improve in this area. Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
