Agreed, and it's always worth saying again!
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:50:55AM -0800, Deirdre Straughan wrote:
> > Ideally, we would also keep an eye on the list for newbie FAQs, and
> answer
> > them on the wiki in a systematic fashion. I hope that the new wiki will
> > make it a little easier for community members to contribute documentation
> > of various sorts.
>
> All of this talk about newbies reminds me of an important tip:
>
> Be nice to newbies.
>
> It's hard sometimes, I know. There's a bug open right now where I'm
> arguing
> a different way of solving a problem. A naive response would be to flame
> the
> original solution, ("I've been playing with this code a long time... blah
> blah blah"), but I really want to acknowledge the original discovery of the
> problem as valued as well. It's hard, because sometimes people think
> rejecting an implementation means rejecting the overall contribution.
>
> If our mailing lists are nice to newbies, it will help their respective
> communities grow.
>
> Dan
>
>
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