Hi, Am Freitag, den 27.06.2014, 15:45 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > I recently started contributing to debian. > Before that, most of my writing with people I don't know personally > through the internet was on Stack Exchange. > On Stack Exchange, messages that only consist of thanking people or > agreement are not considered helpful. > This in mind I'm very unsure if I should write messages like that to > someone or if I should avoid them (to not annoy anyone with them), on > Debian mailing lists or bug reports. > > What is your experience with that? > How do you feel if you read such messages? > Maybe more important: How do you feel if you don't get such messages?
motivation is the most important and most scarce resource in a project like Debian. With that in mind: If you you feel like thanking someone, please do! And if you think they deserve the support publicly (which can make a big difference when people are unsure whether their work is appreciated, which is the case more often than not), then do it on the mailing list or the bug report. Such a mail, although of little content, has more value that most opinionated mails repeated stated on mailing lists like this. Also, most Debianer are (by necessity) trained to ignore mail that has little information for them, so I wouldn’t worry about the “spammyness” of such a mail. Thanks for bringing this up! Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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