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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:54:42
Message-Id: 20120623095326.25423.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > What is hurting is people demanding features without specifying what
3 > the problem is
4
5 Part of enabling progress is to show a strong will to communicate,
6 with the goal of extracting common understanding from discussion.
7
8 In any project based on volunteer effort you must show that you too
9 are interested in giving, for anyone to give you anything.
10
11 When it's not obvious that you want to receive - to the point where
12 you drive the discussion (the horror!) in order to arrive at that
13 point of common understanding - then people will be upset and look
14 down on you, because dealing with you leaves too sour a taste behind.
15
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17 //Peter

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