Please don't do that. Unnecessary comments directed at specific people are exactly the kind of thing that start to change the character of a mailing list and lead to burnout. Such comments are especially unwelcome when directed against people who are not active on the list.
We should set a higher standard, especially in a thread about how nice the mailing list is. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Giuseppe Paleologo <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a long-time R user, I second that. Brian Ripley is a core contributor > to base R, does reply on R-help to many requests, but is very acerbic. In > general, there is quite a big divide between R core contributors and R > users. This is totally absent in Julia, with the founders of the language > very involved with the early adopters. It's a great asset to have for a > new language. Just in recent times, I would say that the early adopters of > Clojure were instrumental in the adoption of the language. > > -gappy > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:50:12 PM UTC-5, ivo welch wrote: >> >> >> my note was partly a joke, partly a warning. the R community started out >> very nice, too. many still are. but some of the tone has shifted towards >> the obnoxious. the weirdest part is that there are some people who seem >> to enjoy *really* helping users, all the while being somewhat insulting. >> it is my (incomplete) understanding that internal strife in the core >> development team has become negative, too. it will be up to the julia core >> team to set the community standard and watch themselves and the community >> to keep it alive. >> >> this reminds me: for those of us who cannot contribute, is there a julia >> foundation membership? it would not be a bad idea to have us using users >> get used to contributing, too. >> >> >> >> >>
