On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 13, 2014 18:56 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by nim-nim
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

Well, if anyone didn't think their choices were right, they wouldn't be making the choices they do. I don't see why a change in configuration format in an entirely different software requires an apology or to whom. Sorry but I still don't have much of an idea what you consider a problem.

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 13, 2014 19:01 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

> Well, if anyone didn't think their choices were right, they wouldn't be making the choices they do.

There's a difference between thinking that their choices were right and being unwilling to consider that they may be wrong.

good programmers, and especially good project leaders need to be open to the possibility that they may be wrong and listen to feedback.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 13, 2014 19:05 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> There's a difference between thinking that their choices were right and being unwilling to consider that they may be wrong.

Sure and systemd has changed a lot based on external input. Abstract conversations OTOH don't accomplish much.