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Debian switching to EGLIBCDebian switching to EGLIBCPosted May 7, 2009 14:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by lmb Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC
Well, yes, the community provides an excellent place for technically gifted asocial geeks :) but such people (me among them) should recognise our limitations and avoid domains we are unsuited for. So being the only hacker on a small project is fine, but being primary maintenance contact on critical and universally-used software *requires* social skills, because much of the role involves communicating with other human beings without pissing them off. If you don't want to or can't do that, find something else to do (there's nothing stopping you from doing most of the hacking work: just fob off the job of saying yea-or-nay to someone who can do it without annoying everyone.)
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Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 7, 2009 18:08 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Ya.. People have their own plusses and minuses and should be put into positions were they are going to be the most benefit. And get their egos out of the way... not everybody should be the front-man for their projects. I doubt there are many people that love hacking and getting into code and details and all that that really want to double as a public relations person. And I doubt that there are many people good at mediating disputes and doing social networking and whatnot that really want to spend all their time coding some low-level C libraries.------------------------- BTW... If your acting like a asshole and your completely right about something.. your still a asshole. A lot of people seem to think that if a they are right about a subject, argument, talking point, or whatever then that gives them allowances to be jerks. Like winning a argument is a victory and the reward is a license to be a asshat. Which it doesn't... they are perfectly within their rights to act like a jerk when they are wrong or when they are right. Being wrong or right doesn't really enter into it and nobody should be surpised when people react negatively to their negative behavior.
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