On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 01:08 +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > Definitely. He can begin by apologizing for how [...] The way forward is always to forgive, as long as the miscreant clearly makes a conscious effort to improve, and of course does not wear shoes or white socks :-) It is of no avail to set people to a higher standard than they can achieve. The child must learn to crawl before dancing. Sometimes mailing lists and IRC bring out the aspergers' syndrome in us all: a lack of empathy, a tendency to forget that on the other end of the wire are people just like us, with feelings and needs. Of course, sometimes no amount of working with someone will get them to change, and at some point yes, we all run out of patience, but then perhaps it is we who are at fault, who have also failed to meet our own impossible standards of perfection. Or to put it another way, "never stop loving" :-) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
