On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 11:06 +0100, Karel Volný wrote: > Dne Po 3. prosince 2012 23:47:14, Adam Williamson napsal(a): > > This gets into a very general discussion, but there is a fairly solid > > case to be made that excessively aggressive behaviour on mailing lists > > doesn't just discourage those it's aimed at, > > I wish it had worked ... discouraging developers that do things that users do > not like would be a good thing ;-) but sometimes I've got the opposite feeling > - the more criticism, the more "yes, I must be doing that right, they burnt > Giordano Bruno on the stake for the truth, now they are trying to burn me" That's, er, a) completely unsubstantiated and b) not what I said. 'Doesn't just discourage X but Y' means 'it discourages both X and Y'. It doesn't mean 'it discourages Y but not X'. > > but a substantial number of potential contributors who do not feel > > comfortable jumping into such an environment. > > hm, and would they feel comfortable jumping to an environment where they hear > "go away we don't want you"? > > shouldn't the reaction be more like "please keep your swearing at home" than > "go away, don't test Fedora"? Ideally, for sure. But what if someone refuses to change their communication style? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
