On 26 June 2012 22:39, John Hunter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Thouis (Ray) Jones <tho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> +1 ! >> >> Speaking as someone trying to get started in contributing to numpy, I >> find this discussion extremely off-putting. It's childish, >> meaningless, and spiteful, and I think it's doing more harm than any >> possible good that could come out of continuing it. > > Hey Thouis, > > Just chiming in to encourage you not to get discouraged. There is a > large, mostly silent majority who feel just the same way you do, it's > just that they are silent precisely because they want to write good > code and contribute and not participate in long, unproductive email > threads that border on flame wars. You've made helpful comments here > already advising people to take this offlist. After that there is > nothing much to do but roll up your sleeves, make some pull requests, > and engage in a worthwhile discussion about work. There are lots of > people here who will engage you on that.
+1 from a pretty much silent user. Andrea. "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality." http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/ _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
