>> Yes, I'll go read the source and figure it out from scratch myself if
>> I have to.

On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Great. That is what Open Source is supposed to be about -- users  
> helping
> resolve problems.


Yes.   And I often do that for many projects.   And yes, it is often  
the main developer says "I don't have time to look at this, but what's  
going on here is this... and take a look here..." and thus gives me  
the ability to start somewhere useful instead of starting at the top  
and trying to learn the code base en total.

"It's an OS problem" tells me nothing.   "It's a networking problem"  
also tells me nothing.   A comment about exactly what the code is  
going to be doing at this point would be really useful.   "It starts a  
subprocess to listen on 9101 for incoming connections" or .... what?

Dan Langille said:
> We differ in our view regarding the project.  Each project handles  
> things in its own way.  This is ours.


Nice way.   Don't even toss a bone to the people who you are expecting  
to find and fix the problems for you.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness


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