Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

Lailah lailahfsf at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 15:43:55 UTC 2013


El vie, 29-03-2013 a las 14:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió:

> On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 09:55 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong
> > community" is always cited.
> > 
> > May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions?  If someone doesn't
> > give enough info, ask them for more, and that's all.  Going off on top
> > posting, depth of quoting, typos, etc makes the list a hostile place.
> > 
> > If you don't have something nice or helpful to say, don't say it.
> 
> If nobody ever says it, how do you expect newbies top learn?
> 
> > If you need more info, ask for it. If you suspect they don't know what
> > they're doing, offer some assistance on how they can get that info.
> > 
> > Quite frankly, if I were a newbie and I had a question and were met with
> > such hostility, I'd think twice about all that stuff about the value of
> > "the community".
> > 
> > Thanks for listening.
> 
> Oh the humanity! You do realize you hijacked a thread to post this,
> don't you?
> 
> poc
> 


Oh!  Really?  I didn't realize it.  What thread you say he hijacked?  I
can't see it...


Regards,
Lailah

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