On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:28:03PM +0000, n0g0013 wrote:

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> On 31.10-11:12, Nick Guenther wrote:

> [ ... ]

> > > and i would suggest that the severe and prevelant attitude toward the

> > > possibilty of poor patches or under-educated actions is the most

> > > significant barrier to encouraging new/young developers.

> >

> > Well that's the point of it; or at least, a useful side-effect.

> > Linux can get away with sending fanboi masses at its code because it's

> > fine with fanboi masses poking at all parts of the kernel, no matter

> > how secure it may be. Right?

>

> i think we'll simply agree to disagree.  i personally find it quite

> disheartening to hear the attitude that prevails here but that's the

> community's decision.  it certainaly seems to refelect the attitute

> of it's leaders (developers).

I don't know about that, but the bug list seems to work well around

here.  The time I submitted a patch, it was for some dinky little

bug that probably no one would ever hit (who's playing text mode

star trek these days?) but Theo picked it up in a day or two.  While

some dinky little bug reports I sent to other less "elitist" projects

have sat out there for years.  I can understand, a lot of projects,

free or otherwise, fall into the trap of having to make a low

priority queue and then never being able to read out of that queue,

but it's a little discouraging when it happens all the same.  So

if I were ever able to do much of anything, I'd probably want to

try here over those other places, even if there was a risk of looking

silly and being told as much.
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Mike Small

smallm@panix.com