We understand that there are hosting requirements for a project on Savannah. I don't even think that we have objections to them, even if we find one or two of them a bit silly, and that overall we would be willing to comply in some manner.
I do think that there are several other issues here that need to be addressed: 1. Identify who you are. I don't this Mario person at all. It would be helpful if he identified who he is, what organization is he from, and what the purpose of the email. Otherwise he comes across as every other opinionated person in the public, who would be duly ignored if he communicated that way. 2. Try to have reasonably good English. If you're an admin, and speaking as an authority from some group, then it is helpful to have at least decent spelling. I understand that English is not everyone's first language; I regularly work on many free and open source projects with people from all around the world with varying degrees of command of the language. But with that many spelling errors in the email, I was beginning to wonder if this was a troll. 3. Be specific. One should read Eric Raymond's "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way": <http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>. If you're going to tell us that something is wrong with the project, then please be specific as to what is wrong so we don't have to play "20 questions" to guess where it is at. Like all volunteer developers our time is always limited, and the more detailed you can be, the easier it is for us to fix it. Or maybe if someone is really motivated, patches are always welcome. ;-) 4. Which brings me to my next point: DO NOT GO AND CHANGE ANYTHING ON THE PROJECT WITHOUT PERMISSION! This was *way over the line* and heavy-handed. The point is to communicate with us first! Give us time to work out the issues and get things fixed. If you come across as a dictator, then that makes us feel like our project is not welcome, and we *will* move elsewhere. Bottom line: If you are unreasonable, then it gives us no incentive to be reasonable back. If you are reasonable, we will work towards fixing any perceived problems. Eric Weddington > -----Original Message----- > From: > avrdude-dev-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel....@nongnu.org > [mailto:avrdude-dev-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel....@nongnu.o > rg] On Behalf Of Sylvain Beucler > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:10 PM > To: avrdude-...@nongnu.org > Cc: savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org > Subject: [avrdude-dev] Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Hosting > requirements inavrdude > > Hi all, > > Hmm, it looks like the situation somewhat got out of hands. > Apologizes if you felt the request was worded unpolitely. > > We'll discuss the problem and come back to you in a while to clarify > the situation. > > Regards, > > -- > Sylvain > > > > _______________________________________________ > avrdude-dev mailing list > avrdude-...@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev >