On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Charlie Brady
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Greg, please do not feed the troll. Les Mikesell has no intention of ever
>> > helping to correct any of the deficiencies he sees in this project. He is
>> > highly skilled at suggesting other people do work which he is not
>> > interested in doing himself.
>>
>> Thanks Charlie, for reminding me of exactly _why_ I've never been
>> interested in trying to contribute anything here.
>
> If you'd care to point out all your contributions to the many other
> projects you participate in then people will be able to see that I have
> been unfair to you and my behaviour is the only reason you don't
> contribute here.
Most of my coding was long ago and not that great. You might still
find my name mentioned somewhere in the source for tar or kermit or
some other old cruft, though. Now I'm more of a sysadmin with a more
pragmatic approach of working around problems or switching to a
different alternative when something doesn't work. Which is partly why
I like to discuss the problems and how to best deal with them, which
for me is rarely going to be modifying perl template expansions that I
don't understand very well on a system not designed to do what I want.
On mail lists like backuppc and OpenNMS I try to answer the beginner
questions and help the community to the extent I can. Sometimes that
involves pointing out the products shortcomings but it is pretty rare
for anyone to get testy about it. This is the only place I've seen
where discussing improvements is aggressively rejected. Why can't you
ever just say something is a good idea or why it isn't and move on?
--
Les Mikesell
[email protected]
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