On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> [...]
> It helps to read the book....
>
> Stefan
Thank you for your feedback. I shall try that.
But on the other side, I want to make a small remark. The most
important element of open source projects are their community. If
there is no community, it means that there are no developers, and
there are no users. Also from the community it stems something else:
mutual non-profit help. By this I mean that if someone has a question
(even the most silliest one), and he sends an email to the community
mailing list, the usual outcome (depending on the community) is:
* someone gives a polite answer correcting him, or pointing him to
the correct place (like one of the repliers to this email has done);
* he is ignored (usually happens with projects governed by
elitists, which have forgotten that their were once newbies (I've seen
a lot of these kind)); (and eventually the user will end-up RTFM, but
mumbling because he has to loose a couple of hours reading the
"Advanced" part of the (RT)FM just to clarify a very simple issue...)
* or seldom someone just sends him to RTFM... (which is even worse
than ignoring him in the first place, because now he's indirectly
called an ignorant)...
So my two cents opinion: rather than using an awesome tool, I
would prefer to use a sh...ty tool, but with an awesome community...
But, thanks anyway,
Ciprian.
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