On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:28:03PM +0000, n0g0013 wrote: > 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. -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]
