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Re: Efforts to attract more users?
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Efforts to attract more users? |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:13:40 +0200 |
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Obviously we remember it quite differently. Let's drop the issue.
Fine with me.
>> Maybe the big problem was that I did not commit this myself.
>
> Only if trying to reach consensus is seen as a big problem...
I was not talking of that problem. So it is not about that.
>> Just that this type of cooperation means much more
>> work.
>
> Much more work than what?
Than when you do the commits yourself.
> You're basically saying that you can't be
> bothered to spend time discussing changes, so the answers you see are,
> either other people spends the time, or you commit the changes even if
> you suspect they wouldn't likely be accepted as is, or in some cases
> you know they are actively opposed.
Not at all. I am talking about the technical difficulties with cooperation.
> I'm glad to see you put it that way, because in most previous
> ocassions (including the one that triggered my intervention here) you
> said that you had patch X or Y but the developers weren't interested
> on them...
It has sometimes seemed so to me, but looking back I think it is more
about our limited resources.
>> Really? Did you read my explanation then? (It is not important to me,
>> but still I get irritated if the bug I was looking at gets ignored
>> because of misunderstandings.)
>
> Misunderstanding is the operating word here. After a while, I find
> your posts in some given thread harder and harder to follow.
I often try to explain on another level if the previous message was
not understood because it seems to me that this is necessary.
I am not sure what the problem is. With some people here I find it
very easy to communicate. With some it is quite hard.
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, (continued)
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/07/09
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/09
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/07/09
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/09
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/07/10
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/10
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Juanma Barranquero, 2010/07/10
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- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/07/12
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