Hi André, On 13 July 2012 17:32, André Warnier wrote: > Tim Pizey wrote:
>> I only joined this list this morning, and am appalled by the lack of >> constructive responses. >> > Tim, > this is probably a wrong initial impression, due to the way in which you > phrased your initial message to the list, which sounded quite aggressive and > condescending even to me who is not a Tomcat developer. > > This list is generally very helpful and polite, even to real Tomcat > beginners. Consulting the list archives would demonstrate this. > > But the phrase > > > "Please maintain backwards compatibility by supplying a default of html > to the the manager url, you will save a lot of people a lot of pointless > work." > > undoubtedly rubbed a few people here the wrong way, considering that Tomcat > is open-source and free software, made mostly by volunteers on their own > time. > It rubbed them all the more the wrong way since they also take the time to > write extensive documentation and put it on-line, and you did not seem to > have even read it before posting the above phrase. > > Now you have a choice : you either continue with the same tone, and it will > be a frustrating experience for everyone (but first of all for you, because > you would end up just being ignored), or we "reset" the relationship and you > might get answers and/or helpful comments. Of which by the way you already > did get some, despite your unnecessarily aggressive tone. I did read the instructions, for example I joined the user list, rather than posting a feature request on JIRA. Feeding back to developers through the list takes effort, there is nothing aggressive about my feedback. Getting user feedback is a privilege, increasingly people are not bothering, preferring to use a forum like Stack Overflow where negative responses, knee jerk RTFM etc can be costly. What other mechanism should I have used to make this feedback? Please also bare in mind that this is not for me, I have had to reconfigure all my poms, I feed this back for the good of your project. hope this helps Tim -- Tim Pizey - http://pizey.net/~timp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
