1) Vito had a legitimate question. 2) It is hard to find anything in archives especially with a limited English. 3) He asked his question about supporting new technologies. 4) Jacob answered and explained the situation giving a lot of details and examples. 5) Vito thanked for the answer and explain his position: perfectionists != conservatives, and suggested that new trends should be ... discussed.
Now we can move on, right? No, the tread started to grow while people were making more and more assumptions about the guy's sinister motives. Was it really necessary to argue with Google Translate or whatever he was using? This is a retorical question => please do not try to answer. Cheers, Eugene Lazutkin http://lazutkin.com/ On 07/30/2010 04:02 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Mark Bucciarelli <mkb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The devs here _extremely_ patient with whiners [1]. >> >> m >> >> [1] People with lots of ideas about how you should >> spend your free time, and spend hours writing emails >> trying to convince you how smart they are, but can't >> be bothered to contribute a single line of code to the >> project. > > That's pretty harsh, and not exactly right. There are plenty of ways > to contribute to open source that don't involving writing code -- bug > reports, documentation, evangelism, blogging, twittering, speaking at > conferences, starting companies around the project, ... > > There's even room for people who have good ideas but don't have the > time to implement them. The key is knowing how to make suggestions in > a way that doesn't sound like your entitling yourself to a bunch of > volunteers' time. > > There is *ABSOLUTELY* nothing wrong with new community members -- or > old ones, or anyone -- making suggestions and advocating for a > particular direction or feature. But it needs to be done in a > respectful, concrete, and polite manner. > > As long as you remember that everyone's a volunteer, and that you > don't have any right to tell anyone how to spend their time [1], then > it's just fine. > > Jacob > > [1] Unless you'd like to send sacks of money to developers. If you > have sacks of cash, we'll probably do what you want. Depending on the > size of the sacks and the denomination of the bills, of course. > -- 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.
