On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 03:18:22PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
Please drop the whole, "I'm not a developer, why the hell should I co-operate with you" attitude.
Your assessment of the situation is highly unfair. There was no such attitude in either the original posting or in Gerard's comment (which I wholeheartedly agree with). Quite to the contrary, you (developers) should drop this "Do everything exactly as /we/ want or we will ignore your contribution and pretend it's useless to us" attitude.
Ok; I'm gonna throw an oar in the water here.
Rob may have overstated the case. But when a project gets big enough, procedures which have evolved for certain tasks really do become essential -- especially when some of the staff are volunteers.
It has nothing to do with a developer/non-developer schism; it's just practicality. Contributors are welcome to do things in other ways, but they do run the risk of their contributions not getting into the project's mainline.
This is true of almost every project that passes a certain size, not just this one.
Cheers, -- jra