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On Wednesday 06 July 2011 22:02:03 pk did opine thusly: |
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> > Devs get a certain amount of leeway and tolerance from users |
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> > because of what they do as volunteers. But there's a line |
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> > somewhere and in my view arbitrarily deciding to obsolete a |
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> > toolkit just because you feel |
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> Yes, but what can we do about it? Force him (I assume he's |
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> volunteering and is not payed for his work) to continue supporting |
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> it? Well, I assume we could pay him... or something. |
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Well, there's really only one thing that appeals to your average dev |
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in any area: |
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Treat them like a dev and appeal to their better judgement. |
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One can recognise that a dev is acting like a total dick, but pointing |
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it out gets you nowhere. I refer you to my vast experience of |
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attempting to do the same with the devs I work with :-) It also |
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applies to sysadmins, people who (embarrassingly) point out that I am |
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a complete jerk lots of the time tend to get nowhere to. |
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Reasoned, well supported arguments coupled with a little ego-stroking |
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is what motivates most devs. Nikos' last comment on the bug is a good |
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one - asking for a list of supported gnome apps in the tree that |
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require gtk+-2. |
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It does require that one put aside one's urges to pull this off. Price |
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of the trade we work in, I suppose. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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