On Monday 19 March 2007 08:11, Simon Budig wrote: > > IMHO, refraining from posts like this could greatly improve the > > atmosphere of this list. > > It is really up to you to help somebody with answering his > > question or not to help, but this "answer" only hurts and helps > > nothing. > > I don't agree with you there. >... (remaining ranst tossed on bascket) Simon, where does that forbid one to add words like "thanks", "please", "would" and etc... to even a short answer, like a FAQ URL??? You see, the GIMP is not exactly with exceeding developer resources, and every single person I see trying to approach the project either here or over bugzilla gets a rude answer that might have turned then away for good. Examples from the last 48 hours include a "help yourself" (bug #329020 - 2007-03-20), "we don't take bug reports against outdated development versions anyway." (bug #420170, 2007-03-19) The guys organizing LGM had called my attention to the point that GIMP is a project perved as hostile towards newcomers. I even addressed in private some hostile postings on this list over the last weeks to try to start changing this general behavior - but it looks it is just too overspread. It is not really hard - and that is to you Mitch, you Sven, you Nomis, to simply rememebr the person on the other sidee is sitll a human being, is not it? Not less human for having less abilities to compile/hack complicated software projects, much less for simply not knowing how to do so. You can think ut whatver you want, mutter whatver you want, write a scratch however you want - I ma just askign that before hitting the "post" button you go back to thetext and add some of the magic words - even if in your heart you are lying. Example: from: "we don't take bug reports against outdated development versions anyway." to: "Please, post bugs only using the latest development version. " (that if one is really unwillingly to type a few more characters) sincerely, js -><- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
