On 29/11/2020 19.56, Per Jessen wrote:
Neal Gompa wrote:
In my experience in the Linux Discord communities (especially the openSUSE one), I have dealt with *many* complaints about the mailing lists, and people being afraid to contribute because of how people respond on the lists.
Is there an archive anywhere where one can go educate oneself in this respect? I find it quite odd that someone should refrain from contributing just because of a poor response on a mailing list.
Personally speaking, my "itch" does not subside just because I am poorly received somewhere, I still wanna scratch it :-)
Neal, IMHO it is just a little too easy to announce that you "have dealt with *many* complaints about the mailing lists" and then scolding the mailing list members without any further evidence.
Each communication channel has it's own "atmosphere", some are tough and direct, others less so. There are learning curves, we all have to scale them.
I have seen people on Usenet comment that the Linux crowd is rough and not welcoming, that they got grunts and even insults when asking things. Interestingly, none mentioned openSUSE, they mentioned other distributions (I would have to search the posts to find out which. I can't grep, sorry). Which is curious, because on Usenet there is no moderation and you can be indeed insulted. I have been insulted more than once! (sometimes for using Linux, or for not doing perfect photographs). Hey! Remember when sudo would insult us? The default was changed on openSUSE to avoid this. And we all have seen how the "creator" treats other developers :-p -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)