On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 06:36 -0800, Andrew Ingram wrote: > On Jan 29, 2:18 pm, Gertjan Klein <gkl...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > This payment thing comes up regularly here, and pollutes the discussion. > > I have been using Django for a while, and found it to have good things > > and downsides (both IMHO). I have not even critisized Django here (yet > > ;)), just expressed mild curiousity. I don't think I've given you reason > > to bring up that you're not payed for your work on Django. > > Off-topic: > > For what it's worth I agree with you. I've lost track of the number of > times i've found bugs in open source software and been not-so-subtly > told to contribute the fix myself. Or asked about something that I > think should be included and been told to write it myself. > > As a consumer of software libraries it is not my job to fix them,
It's rarely anybody's job to fix them, in the greater scheme of things. That's the whole point and why I think Gertjan's comment above is an over-reaction. We are *all* on a level playing field here. If somebody says something like "I wondered why it isn't in; it doesn't seem like a lot of work" in a light-hearted manner, they will often get a reply in the same tone, pointing out one of the many reasons why it isn't in there is that the person in question hasn't contributed a patch to add it. Itches get scratched by the people who have them, particularly enhancement requests. Sure, sometimes you can't fix the things, but then that's life. You made that risk evaluation going in. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
