I don't think so. In Chinese, 兼听则明, which means you hear more on a thing's good and bad, you see more on what the thing really is.
Time will show its justice. 在 2007-03-06二的 06:49 +0100，Jacopo Cappellato写道： > Jonathon, all, > > Jonathon -- Improov wrote: > > David (Jones), > > > > What about those open source projects that are polished for OOTB > > convenience and experience? Even Apache (httpd) and Tomcat (both under > > Apache Licence 2.0?) have better OOTB "operational readiness" than > > OFBiz. Ie, they work well OOTB and they have very good and widely > > published docs to further fuel explosive rate of community development. > > (I understand you believe that approach won't benefit OFBiz; I don't > > know so I can't say.) > > ... > > I'm sorry to interfere with a mail addressed to David Jones (via the > mailing list), but I think that my comments (not specifically addressed > to this Jonathon's mail) are worth of consideration: > > 1) if it's not really necessary, I would not want to see David Jones > time wasted reading/answering this kind of long messages about a subject > discussed at least 1000 times; David is one of the best > architects/developers in the project and we should all do our best to > leave him concentrated in the most critical tasks that can make the > project grow; in the last months I've noticed the bad habit to attempt > to attract David (and other core developers as well) in long and > unnecessary discussions > > 2) another very bad habit is to attribute to others your personal > re-elaboration of what others said: in this way, if the concept is > reported in an incomplete or incorrect way, you can create confusion to > new users and oblige the person to jump in and correct it. As a general > rule, never try to restate what you think that other said, just express > your thoughts (if they are of interest for the project). > For example, Jonathon said: "I understand you (David) believe that > approach won't benefit OFBiz" > I really don't think that David ever said something like this; the main > point here is that OFBiz and Tomcat are totally different products (as > discussed 10000 times). > > In general #1, #2 are harmful habits for a project and we should avoid them. > > Jacopo > >
