On 14 July 2010 16:26, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
If you ask me, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971#c371 is more objectionable, because it shows the Wine community to be ill-mannered and hostile to newbies.
Sure, it could have been worded more carefully, but I don't buy the "taints us all" theory.
However, if we're talking about being harmful to the project, I think it's far more insidious and actively harmful to pretend being an active / respected Wine developer and giving potential new developers bad advice from that position. Because what happens is that those people take that advice in good faith, start writing patches, and perhaps even develop some habits based on it. But when those patches then hit wine-patches and get shot down during review, it's the reviewers that get blamed for being "picky" or "harsh", while in some cases the entire premise on which those patches are based is simply wrong. I think that does far more harm to new developers than "being mean to someone on the internet".
Of course with Wine being an open project there's not a whole lot we can do about people saying whatever they like, except perhaps teaching potential new developers about things like "git shortlog -s -n --since={5year}".