Community faults
Community faults
Posted Sep 26, 2007 9:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Community faults by esr
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)
`Total' and `brutal' are quite different. There's no call to be nasty to people merely because you disagree with their ideas, but in some parts of the development community you can expect very harsh flames (we're talking the sorts of things that would lead to people walking out of the room at best and social ostracism at worst if done in RL) merely if you make tiny coding style errors in otherwise entirely acceptable patches.
And that's simply wrong.
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