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Is this the tone developers have to adopt in order to contribute? F that then.
by jacknews 8y ago
Is this the tone developers have to adopt in order to contribute?
F that then.
- icebraining 8y agoI don't think the developers are required to adopt any kind of tone.
- naibafo 8y agoYou don't have to adopt any tone to contribute, but if you can not handle a Monty Python reference maybe you shouldn't contribute.
- jerry40 8y agoCan you imagine that there are people who did not watch Monty Python at all? I know it is not always easy for a western person to accept a fact that there are different cultures around the world.
- scbrg 8y agoOn the other hand, when I interact with people from wildly different cultures than my own and they say something that sounds very strange to me, my first reaction is not to take offense but rather to try to figure out if there's a cultural difference I'm oblivious to.
- jerry40 8y agoI completely agree it is ok to hear strange jokes and not to be offensive. But to hear 'if you can not handle a Monty Python reference maybe you shouldn't contribute' is too much for me.
- alkonaut 8y agoIf you can't do constructive criticism (even in the face of repeated mistakes), normal human communication (meaning apologizing when your well-intentioned joke was poorly received, for example) then you shouldn't be a maintainer accepting contributions. Or working with humans at all.
- baud147258 8y agoNo to contribute you have to stay polite, like the non-Linus devs in the linked thread. And if your patch is good the maintainer might merge it.