On 01/19/2013 08:49 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks to all for voicing your opinions. > > My observations: > > * The community is split on this topic > * Both camps have people that strongly defend their respective views > * The above two points are unlikely to change > * People are getting upset due to -1 for things that are by some considered > nitpicking > * People are getting upset because others are not willing to fix their -1 > remarks since they consider them to be nitpicks > * Commits that are otherwise fine are getting stuck because of this > > Loose from how you choose to interpret and deal with those, let's try to be > tolerant of each other, keep and eye on the bigger picture, and work > towards what is really important as a community. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw
Jeroen, I'm 100% in agreement with this. I thank you for starting this conversation and surfacing this issue. I saw some advice recently that if you're trying to meet someone halfway, you should do a little more than 50%, like 60 or 65%, to account for heat loss. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
