Re: Cross-Platform Version Control

From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:57:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650905130657q2de9686q683fea84345a6651@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490905130650u4d047e13pa73e0a96289c452a@mail.gmail.com>

2009/5/13 Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/5/13 Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:41 AM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I don't know why the git developers are being so hostile/dismisisve,
>>>
>>> Are you serious?
>>>
>>
>> ...because we'll kill you if aren't >:-E
>
> I'm just flabbergasted by some people's expectations. Perhaps John
> doesn't realize the git developers are all volunteers, and that it is
> never appropriate to criticize a volunteer. A "thank you for all your
> hard work on git" would have done nicely.

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.

John