On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > I'm as much of an open source developer as anyone else here. I spend > a huge amount of my time programming for KDE. But I've never told a > user "well that settles it" because they won't code it themselves :-/ > I certaintly get a huge number of bug/wishes that I can't/won't code > myself, but I try to be a bit more diplomatic about it. > But then the kernel mailing lists tend to be a lot more.. direct.. > than the kde mailing lists, so I guess it comes from that. Requiring > people to have a thick skin and all that. This is not the kernel mailing list. In fact this list is quite friendlier and accommodating that the kernel list. The remark alluded above comes from _one_ of the git developers. And Dscho is apparently in a rather sad mood these days. While the substance of Dscho's remark is entirely pertinent, it would be wrong to use its form and style as a characterization of git developers in general. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html