On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 02:28 +0000, gajendra khanna wrote: > >> nervous....as this is my first software project.. > > > > you will not get very far if you use smsspeak to your mentor ;-) > Let the mentor and his work decide that. He has used only 3 words out > of 30+ words in smsspeak which I feel does not warrant your running > him down. Kenneth, please desist from putting others down. Positive > people do not do that.
thanks for the lesson in manners. I have seen enough people from India using smsspeak, all caps etc etc and getting ignored - and sometimes humiliated on international mailing lists. There are communities where everyone is polite and soft spoken, and there are communities where people are pretty rude and intolerant. It is best for people to be prepared to face this. As far as GSOC is concerned, again there are communities who are lax and accept any work whatsoever and pass the students. But most of the communities are very exacting - don't forget that all the mentors are volunteers who have very little time to spare. And working with them is difficult. You have a very peculiar notion of 'running people down'. It is not. One terrible thing about our culture is that any criticism is taken as an insult - to the point where I see that people get insulted when defects in their code are pointed out. This is not good. We must learn to take criticism - either polite criticism or even rude criticism. If a person's code is rubbish - tell him it is rubbish. If you sugar coat your criticism, he may think his code is pretty good - and never learn. I do not consider my statement rude - it is a friendly warning (it even has a smiley) -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
