Zolko wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:47 am
@Kunda1 : I admire your patience. You must have been some sort of Zen-übergourou in a previous life
Previous life?! How about this one?
I try my best (don't always succeed) to not collapse possibilities. You never know who will wander in to the forum. Lots of engineer-types have big ego issues and fix-it mentalities that can really trigger problems in relating to them. But most of them are coming from a well-intentioned place, the challenge is to see beyond their sub-par social skills and not take what they say personally (even if it is personal for them). People come in here and start throwing their experience around in order to gain respect, they find faults and provide verbal solutions without asking what our thoughts are on the subject or what has been done to address them. I might of been one of those people a long time ago, when I was 'untrained' in the way of connecting to open source communities.
I couldn't imagine myself going in to a forum and saying 'Hey, Love this software but what gives about X, Y, Z? Y'all should really spend your time fixing those things. Is that not obvious after 20+ years of working on this project?'
No. Instead I'd take the time to ask about this historical context of how things evolved to where they are today. I'd ask if someone could direct me to
forum threads that could 'get me up to speed' on where development is on this or that subject. It's just the respectful thing to do. I love meeting people who do this. There is a thoughtfulness and mutual respect there. But it takes patience and giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, thanks for the sentiment. I'll get off my soapbox now
