> > > If person A verbally attacks person B, I still think it does not help to > show a *disapproving* reaction towards person A, because then A may feel > attacked, which may make his/her behaviour even worse, and which > wouldn't help B at all. Instead, I suggest to show a *supporting* reaction > towards person B, in order to make B stronger and prevent damage. >
Yes, that is correct. Especially in the highly fragmented and open-to-misinterpretation text-only domain we live in. > Is this a well-known negative of open source development (resolving > disputes?) Has it been explored in journals? (I'm not well-read on whatever > literature there is on open source pro/con recently.) > RJF rjf, I (once again) *highly* recommend Steven Weber's http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018587 "The Success of Open Source", in particular the chapters on self-governance in open source, as a place to start reading about this. There are also numerous articles in various collections on this issue, but somewhat surprisingly there is a lot of repetition - the researchers on this seem to focus on motivation and economic success, or other socio-economic issues, and less on the socio-political aspect which is just as important. There are also several mildly scholarly histories of e.g. Linux that go in far too much detail about the damage (and the good) that Torvald's personality does there. But there is certainly an abundance of anecdotal stuff regarding this out there, just not often well-organized - it comes in the midst of other discussions. And someone asked about RTM style comments - yes, we do get those, more's the pity, though Sage is pretty good about such things, largely thanks to the tone William set very early on. But there is still some of it, which is why at least having a non-penalty-based 'honor code' sort of "out there" could be useful as a place to gently remind people that we're not just working for the 20-odd people replying to this thread, but for hundreds or thousands watching. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
