On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 03:18:22PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
Please drop the whole, "I'm not a
developer, why the hell should I
co-operate with you" attitude.
Your assessment of the situation is highly unfair. There was no such
attitude in either the original posting or in Gerard's comment (which I
wholeheartedly agree with). Quite to the contrary, you (developers)
should drop this "Do everything exactly as /we/ want or we will ignore
your contribution and pretend it's useless to us" attitude.
Ok; I'm gonna throw an oar in the water here.
Rob may have overstated the case. But when a project gets big enough,
procedures which have evolved for certain tasks really do become
essential -- especially when some of the staff are volunteers.
It has nothing to do with a developer/non-developer schism; it's just
practicality. Contributors are welcome to do things in other ways, but
they do run the risk of their contributions not getting into the
project's mainline.
This is true of almost every project that passes a certain size, not
just this one.
Cheers,
-- jra
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