Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 14, 2007, 03:15 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710132011270.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071014014445.GN27899@spearce.org>

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> But just saying "MY GOD FIX THE UI" is not a wishlist item (yes,
> that was a real survey answer).  It provides the community no
> chance to understand what parts of the UI we need to work on, and
> what parts the end-user is OK with or just hasn't even tried to use.

Heh. I do agree that some people just ask for unreasonable or stupid things (or maybe they are just really bad at explaining them, and may have something non-stupid in mind but just cannot articulate it).

And I also agree that there are tons of people who are just lazy and don't even bother to try to explain themselves.

And I'll flame people myself. I can't even say that's a rare event. So I shouldn't throw _too_ many stones, or one of them might bounce back.

But at the same time, just accepting that there are people who will potentially never really be productive members of society (whether "society" is git or something bigger), is probably a good idea. They aren't worth complaining about: they don't generally tend to take anything away from the community unless the community itself reacts negatively to them.

			Linus