On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 06:27:14AM -0700, Daniel wrote:
On 06/22/2012 05:00 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:45:06PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>>On 06/21/2012 09:36 PM, Roger wrote:
>>>>>As I understand it to date the devs say:
>>>>>"Go away", rightly so,
>>>>>and "Put up or shut up", again rightly so.
>>>
>>>I've never heard complaints about the KDE devs doing that, and I
>>>know that the Xfce devs don't. AFAIK, only the Gnome devs say that.
>
>Citation needed! :P
I hope that you're not asking for a citation to the effect that the
KDE or Xfce developers _don't_ respond to complaints with "Go away!"
nor with "Put up or shut up!" and are simply asking for
substantiation that Gnome developers _have_.
In Wikipedia "citation needed" is added to prove a claim. Basically a
reference to a study showing that in general GNOME developers give this
answer and secondly that XFCE as well as KDE developers don't do this.
I think it is somewhat normal to ask for more details. And I understand
that proving a negative is difficult (XFCE/KDE), but that should still
be possible (sampling of all the answers).
In this latter case, what would you do with the substantiation? If
your response would be to shrug or to embrace the acts of
rejection,it would hardly be worth the effort of providing the
substantiation. If, on the other hand, you promise to pour warm,
stale beer on one of those developers, then I for one will be happy
to track down an instance. :-;
So in short: you have a belief, no basis for it, but cannot be bothered
to properly investigate. You make a judgement about GNOME developers,
and when someone from GNOME asks for details, there are none.
Glad you cleared that up for me :)
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Regards,
Olav