Re: [Gaim-devel] tabs

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Richard Hoskins spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> writes:
> > As far as not finding a core file, I *personally* expect people who
> > wish to follow development versions of software to know how to
> > enable core dumpage ... (ulimit -c unlimited).  Maybe I set the bar
> > too high.  In either case, perhaps we should add some text to
> > gdb.php explaining how to cause your machine to dump cores if it
> > does not by default.
>=20
> OK.
> But, I *personally* expect not to be treated rudely.  I was trying to
> help.  There you go.  Maybe I set the bar to high.

Hmm, my point was not that there was any justification to treating you
rudely, but I realize that what I wrote doesn't look very good as I
reread it.  I apologize.

> You complain when your lusers just whine, and you're rude when a luser
> tries to help, but his help isn't up to your standards.

There is a problem here with becoming jaded ... if someone tries to
help but needs a little push, and it's a problem we haven't seen
before, it's easy to give that little push.  If someone tries to help
with a problem we've seen a dozen times and needs a little push, it's
very easy to snap and say "stuff it".  That's not the fault of the
person reporting the bug, of course ...

> Why don't you guys just close the CVS and this mailing list?  (Serious
> question.) They don't seem to be doing anything but annoying you
> anyway.

Because, contrary to how this thread might look, we *do* get plenty of
useful feedback.  There are stretches of days at a time where all of
the feedback is redundant and hardly useful, but fortunately they
aren't contiguous.  :-)

Ethan

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