Tristan 'Minty' Colgate wrote:
Hi,
My apologies for those on the channel who may take offense to this, atleast
the ones to whom it was not aimed, but the fact is that after making a simple
enquiry on the IRC channel I was in absolute shock...
I asked one simple question, are there any known issues with the zaptel
modules on 2.6, was given some very sensible advice to upgrade my mod utils,
which I did. I asked if anyone had any other ideas, at which point things got
pretty abusive.
Now the point is that without evening establishing if I was just wasting time
hassling developers into fixing my "problems" for me (I've been on the end of
enough of that recently to know how annoying it is), I was being excluded from
evening helping out. That is rather an odd attitude for advocates of an open
source project to express.
I've been following asterisk developement for a long time, and playing with
it at home. Recently I have been able to deploy it in a commerial VoIP (SIP)
services that I have developed for a client. I am consequently therefore
exteremely greatful to *, and cosider it not just a duty, but also an honour to
be able to give something back.
In 6 years of writing and contributing to Free Software project, I have
simply never come across the attitude that I met on that channel. And
regardless of the rights or wrongs of it, it is the phrase "#asterisk" I am
always going to remember for it, not the specific people involved.
By all means dismiss me as an arrogant arse, a prima donna, or whatever else
you care to think of. I meant nothing more by that statement than good old
fashioned sarcasm.
That doesn't sound like the #asterisk channel. Severe teasing is normal.
Outright abuse is not.
Regards,
Steve
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