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Honesty and cruelty are in no wise the same.
by panglott 11y ago
Honesty and cruelty are in no wise the same.
- zamalek 11y agoPrecisely. Sometimes a contribution simply cannot be salvaged, calling the person an idiot has chance going to chase them away resulting in a net loss. "Sorry to make you try this again, here is a more appropriate approach" could result in a usable contribution and possibly future higher-quality contributions from that same person - a net gain. That line of thought indicates that being nice is the most logical "contributor architecture" choice. Why do we have all these guidelines about how to deal with code, yet none about how to deal with people? It's insane. Re: the Linux/distro split. It's true, an IRC room for a distro is not the Linux kernel group - however, it's not a vast stretch of the imagination to conclude that they learned that attitude from the kernel group.