From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 15:57:57 EDT
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Geoff wrote:
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:23:33 +0100
> From: Geoff <capsthorne@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: 1.99.3 missing abi_plugin_builtin.h
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:23:58 +0100 (BST)
> Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> >
> > > I support OpenSource, I am grateful for the efforts of
> > > developers, and I don't expect anything in the way of
> > > support- but I can do without anything in the way of
> > > sarcasm. Anyway, its your project, suit yourselves.
> >
> > Dont take it personally, he was trying to be funny not
> > mean. The developers here are not like that.
>
> Thanks Alan,I don't mean to make a big deal of this. I
Dont thank me, thank Frank for answering the question, I just try and
encourage people to be as friendly and as welcoming as when I first joined
in.
> don't even post any issue I find on the dev list so that
The way I see it if you compile stuff you are not an ordinary user and
you probably should have posted to the developer list but there are some
developers subscribed to this list too and we try to always give
some response.
> no-one will think I am begging for help from busy people. It
> seems to me, however, that either the developers do or do
> not want ordinary, reasonably savvy, users to test
The developers relentlessly say how much they want people to test
development versions. There are even binaries available for most unstable
releases which is much more than many volunteer run projects manage to do.
> development versions or not. I don't really care either way-
You clearly care very much, but I can assure you that the developers
here almost always try to be friendly and helpful.
Keep in mind that written English is very impreciseI am sure Frank
intended to be amusing and lighthearted not sarcastic (and I expect he
will say so any minute now).
Try and focus on the good things, note how quickly he responded.
> as I said, it is their project not mine - but if they want
It belongs to all of us.
> the kind of assistance we can give then they need to give us
> a clue - and not respond sarcastically when we screw up.
Stick around and I am sure you find out that the developers do try very
hard to help people out, on both the mailing lists, on IRC and in
Bugzilla.
> Sorry to have bored everyone with my rant. Time to let it
> go.
Dont go! stick around, more help is always welcome.
> Geoff
Sincerely
Alan Horkan.
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