On 3/31/11 2:09 PM, kcrisman wrote:
And I agree that we should communicate with the author politely. I was
addressing the Sage developers that use lcalc, and I think that its
allowable to use a more colloquial tone in that case.
I would submit that we should be as polite as possible whenever
discussing component pieces of Sage. We depend on them to make it
work great. This is especially true when discussing something fairly
technical to a large proportion of Sage developers, I would guess, and
certainly to the many users who subscribe or visit this on the web in
the hopes of learning something. This is a public forum, even if it
often doesn't seem like it because we get to know one another to some
extent at Sage Days and on the list.
As a separate issue, I realize that not everyone will agree on what
acronyms/cuss words are appropriate for this forum, so I won't push
this too strongly. But my guess is that the public Mma lists, or
Mapleprimes, wouldn't be too hot on this as a customer relations
strategy.
+1 to everything you said. Also, I'd like to point out that since many
upstream developers lurk on this and other Sage lists, our "colloquial"
conversations actually are heard by many upstream developers. Even if a
particular upstream developer is not subscribed, many other upstream
developers see how we behave as a group and that will probably influence
their opinion of Sage.
Thanks,
Jason
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