On Monday, April 29, 2013 2:59:29 PM UTC-4, Arnon Marcus wrote: > <off-topic> > Look, I get that in many open-source communities, feature-requests are > generally frowned upon. It's like "who this guy thinks he is, telling me > what's missing with MY great achievement, hu...?" > There is a lot of ego-involved... > Sometimes too-much so... >
I'm not sure whom you're addressing here, but I don't think anyone is dismissing your requests because they are perceived as being critical of web2py and therefore ego threatening. I think the only problem so far has been a lack of specificity. > Granted, I don't pay anyone here, so social-legitimacy for requesting > "anything" is questionable at-best... > But there is a difference between a "request" and a "demand", and a lot of > people seem to conflate the two - especially in western-cultures. > Again, not sure to whom that comment is directed, but I haven't seen anyone here misconstrue your requests as demands, nor do I consider that to be a particularly western problem. > But do you really think that there is no place "at all" for > feature-requests in FOSS communities? We may be "political" and call them > "wish-lists" or "suggestions-for-additions" - that may sound better - but > it is still practically the same thing... > Someone raises an idea, tries to convince other people that it's cool and > shiny, and maybe someone else get's excited about it enough to implement > it, and maybe not... But does this make it illegitimate to try? > I think that all sounds fine -- you just have to do some more work to convince folks you have a truly cool and shiny new idea. It's one thing to make a request and hope someone gets excited enough to implement it, but quite another to make a request and then chastise the audience for failing to become excited. Anthony -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
