Being rude to users considered harmful

[Dan Kegel]

Now, I'm as much of a BOFH as anybody else.  Maybe more.
But when I see a Wine developer telling users things like
  "For me all VB apps have to go to /dev/null without exceptions!"
or
  "It's a minor problem - leave with it or fix it yourself!"
I feel quite sad.

Can we agree to be a bit more civil with the people who
file bugs in bugzilla?

Thanks...
- Dan

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On 3/7/07, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> Now, I'm as much of a BOFH as anybody else.  Maybe more.
> But when I see a Wine developer telling users things like
>   "For me all VB apps have to go to /dev/null without exceptions!"
> or
>   "It's a minor problem - leave with it or fix it yourself!"

Both comments were made by the same person, and it appears to be his
typical behaviour on bugzilla.
> I feel quite sad.

We all should.
> Can we agree to be a bit more civil with the people who
> file bugs in bugzilla?
>
> Thanks...
> - Dan

Damjan

[Kuba Ober]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Now, I'm as much of a BOFH as anybody else.  Maybe more.
> But when I see a Wine developer telling users things like
>   "For me all VB apps have to go to /dev/null without exceptions!"

I guess people sometimes forget that you can code crap in any language. My 
LISP code is only barely becoming acceptable after a year's worth of playing 
in LISP. Similarly, I did write some printed circuit board printout code (to 
print autotrax .pcb files) in VB5 in 1997, and I'm still OK with the way the 
code looked, 10 years later. It was short, clean and simple, less than 1000 
lines. The application was useful to me, and I don't think that there was 
anything wrong with it being in VB5. It actually ported very nicely to Qt 
3 -- it was just as readable, and linecount-wise almost the same as well. So 
yeah, broad statements just don't cut it.

Cheers, Kuba

[Tom Spear]

On 3/7/07, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> Now, I'm as much of a BOFH as anybody else.  Maybe more.
> But when I see a Wine developer telling users things like
>   "For me all VB apps have to go to /dev/null without exceptions!"
> or
>   "It's a minor problem - leave with it or fix it yourself!"
> I feel quite sad.
>
> Can we agree to be a bit more civil with the people who
> file bugs in bugzilla?
>
> Thanks...
> - Dan

Not to mention people who are trying to do their small part to make a
difference on the list? Or is reporting progress on a bug when
bugzilla is down considered spam?