Re: Official Git Homepage change? Re: git-scm.com
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jul 27, 2008, 15:53 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807271744180.5526@eeepc-johanness>
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- <20080727122236.GY10151@machine.or.cz>
Hi,
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> (ii) The tone on the mailing list seems frequently unnecessarily > harsh.
I heard this a lot of times now. I think it is not "harsh", but "direct". There is nobody saying "you are a bloody fool". At least not in the first response, and certainly not without explaining why.
Sure, I, for one, am not overly polite. I do not start my mail with "It is such a nice thing that you decided to provide a patch. I am certain that you know C pretty well, but there _might_ be a few _tiny_ improvements, would you indulge with me to let them lay out in front of you?"
I do not do that because it goes without saying in Open Source that I would not _bother_ to reply if I was not interested. And it Just Wastes My Time.
Maybe I should start my mails with "Disclaimer: I only reply to you because I am interested in your patch."
Ciao, Dscho