Re: my latest blog post

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Catonano <address@hidden> writes:

>> Andy’s time is still limited.  What other people can do is discuss
>> *specific* cases on guile-devel and work towards a solution.  But please
>> do not demand of others to explain everything in detail.  (I’m directing
>> this at everyone who heeds my advice to go to guile-devel, not at any
>> one person in particular.)  In order to have a positive impact you also
>> need to learn enough about the state of the art to ensure that the
>> discussions can be productive.
>>
>
> I think I demonstrated I am ready to put some effort into this
>
> And I think this remark is unfair

I wrote this:

   But please do not demand of others to explain everything in detail.
   (I’m directing this at everyone who heeds my advice to go to
   guile-devel, not at any one person in particular.)

Rephrasing: I’d like to point this out to people who take this
opportunity to bemoan the lack of other features or who disagree with
what they think are different priorities.  You do not feel addressed if
you know you’ve made efforts in this area.

> And saying I should come on guile-dev and actually provide what I thin is
> useful, nowing that I can't (not immediately is not a fair answer either
>
> Because it's equivalent to a "fuck you"

Wow.  No.

I think that’s an *extremely* uncharitable reading of what I wrote.  I
will refrain from further comments in this thread lest what I write will
be misconstrued in a similar fashion.

>> With regards to the shouting match on #guile that you linked in your
>> blog post, I can only say that I would have likely stepped in had this
>> happened when I was around.  Textual communication certainly should not
>> reach these levels of apparent aggression.
>>
>
> What do you mean with "apparent" ?

I’m pretty bad at gauging emotion in textual communication and it’s
generally not easy to infer the intended tone in short text messages.
That said, the exchange you linked to appeared to me to be of an
aggressive nature.  That’s what I mean by “apparent”.

--
Ricardo