<div dir="ltr">Ok. no more ellipses...what I was trying to share is an unhappy experience I had with the open source Linux community.<div><br></div><div>I am sure this will not happen on this Python Dev list of professionals.</div><div><br></div><div>Please ignore my comments.</div><div><br></div><div>From now on I will focus on contributing to Python (especially on a Windows platform) and not taking up valuable reading time.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Burkhard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Chris Barker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div> I'm really confused -- you had a handful of very positive responses to your offer to help with Python on Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>Then a couple off the cuff remarks (at least one of which was serious) about what is often known as "the bus factor":</div><div><br></div><div>But I think you may want to take into account the history here. This has been talked about A LOT in the Python community for years -- so we may be a bit blase about it. Note that Wikipedia's page on the bus factor:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">"""An early instance of this sort of query was when Michael McLay publicly asked, in 1994, what would happen to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">Python language</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> if </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum" title="Guido van Rossum" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">Guido van Rossum</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> were hit by a bus.</span><sup style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">[8]</a>"""</sup><br></div><div><sup style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><br></sup></div>So this has been very, very well hashed out in the Python community.<div><br></div><div>And a quick look at the existence of this list, the messages on it, and the source repo will tell you that Python is in no way a personal project of one person. (not to mentions the PSF)</div><div><br></div><div>I think the lessons here are:</div><div><br></div><div>- don't be too sensitive</div><div><br></div><div>and, important for every open source community:</div><div><br></div><div>- your comments and questions will be taken far more seriously if you have done your homework.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Burkhard Meier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burkhardameier@gmail.com" target="_blank">burkhardameier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Please do allow me to share my humble experiences of being a software professional on a Windows platform.<div><br></div><div>Almost 20 years.</div><div><br></div><div>You know what; when I tried out 'sugar Linux' or Peppermint,,,the "admin' dude kicked me out 5 times in one sole eve,</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe this is just *me*..</div><div><br></div><div>You know what: I did have my time with this *open source community*...</div><div><br></div><div>I was just asking a sincere question.</div><div><br></div><div>C'mon </div><div><br></div><div>This was rather very ridiculous.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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