On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:15:23PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <[email protected]> writes: > > > When we deal with open-source volunteer > > projects while we have that much stress in our lives, we all get > > short-tempered. I'm certain that you can think of examples from my > > own emails. > > Sure. But there is always the option to not reply at all. That takes > even less time.
I don't know about that -- when I write stuff to an email list, I like to get at least one answer, even if it's rude/vague/useless. If there's total silence then I don't know if anybody cares, or if they're busy and planning a long rebuttal, or if the network simply ate my email. Sometimes I end up looking through the web email archive just to get reassurance that the email actually went out. > And I was not entirely joking when providing Carl with a stock > answer I consider more conducive in most of the situations where > he would answer like he did. I didn't take it as a joke. For unknown users, I would propose a brief sentence and a link to the new "help us" page. That doesn't really help for regular contributors, so having a different set answer might be good for them. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
