El vie, 19 jul 2024 a la(s) 10:09 a.m., Raul Miller (rauldmil...@gmail.com) escribió: > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 4:30 AM Vevy Kod <vevy...@laposte.net> wrote: > > Just to be clear, I did send deraadt@ a message to apologize for my > > previous comment, and to ask that we continue that discussion in a more > > civil manner. > > > > His only reaction was to cuss me out even more. > > > > New contributors should not have to deal with that level of > > aggressivity, so I'm out. > > I am remembering when I was just getting started, and was very > impressed with my abilities and I eagerly contributed a small bit of > code to a collaborator. > > The code would crash for a test case that I had not thought to test. > It was simple to fix. > > But my code was ripped out and the person I was trying to help refused > to accept further contributions from me. I was unhappy, and distressed > by his response. > > It took me years to understand how much care even people like myself > put into good code, and how awful the experience was from the other > side of the fence. > > Anyways... My takeaway from back then would be that new contributors > should avoid using what English grammar specialists call imperative > mood. (And, perhaps, when they get negative feedback, think through > the issues exposed by that feedback. This is neither trivial nor > easy.) > > -- > Raul >
Something similar happened to me, a couple of months ago I sent a couple of commits to fix a bug and upstream they beat that code mercilessly. Was I upset about it? No, I understood that the developer only wanted the code to work well at all times, and not cause any more problems than the solution I was trying to provide. In the end, the developer decided to go in another direction (an alternative that I had also mentioned) and it was decided to rewrite everything with a new library that simplified support for other platforms and fixed the initial problem, something to help with code and testing. But now it seems that people giving you negative feedback is undesirable, and for the mere fact of doing it, they attack you and believe that you are sabotaging them. Sad. -- "Dios en su Cielo, todo bien en la Tierra" ***********************************************
