Re: List intolerance VS advocacy

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Scott Sandeman-Allen (RSCorp) wrote:

> Respect and civility is a universal that helps things work better in any
> circumstance.

What respect and civility is there in asking someone else to do your
homework for you? I'm not gonna say that everyone on the list is
Miss Manners, but questions that are requests for pointers to docs,
or which have good information in them tend to get reasonable replies.
Questions that have no information or which are covered by resources
that everything points to (website, FAQ, man afterboot, READMEs) tend
to get more, err, acerbic responses.

> Just remember that without some form of imigration the project will
> become stale at some point.

Eh? I don't think this necessarily holds true. I will grant that if
everyone but Theo decided to go do Something Else, then yes, development
would slow down considerably. And that having more *good* coders
contribute could speed things. But that doesn't mean that there's
consequently any need to go out and recruit people. Especially people
who can't deal with RTFM-style answers.
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| Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2002.06.13/14:35:28 PDT |
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