[Sugar-devel] Have we achieved consensus among activite Sugar developers? [ Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 21]

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 6 November 2013 07:15, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:

> El 06/11/13 00:40, Yioryos Asprobounitis escribió:
>
>> Looking at the archives of this list you can find several cases (some
>> recent)
>> of "non-conforming" contributors that are not contributing anymore,
>> supporting the
>> "high conformity" hypothesis.
>>
> I too feel the overall attitude within this list has been dismissive of
> non-conforming ideas and individuals, sometimes bluntly. The spanish
> speakers, from Xavi who did so much translation, to Homunq who
> started (and abandoned) Develop Activity, to Yama whose ideals always
> seemed to clash with reality, I miss them. I myself have been often
> frustrated, having retreated biting my tongue more than once.
>
> It makes me think of the eastern spiritual ideal of speaking only when
> necessary, and then only the truth, and then only with sweet words.
>
> Probably we have all broken that ideal here, and it is not clear how to
> facilitate constructive non-conformism.
>

I can think of at least a couple of cases where the list could have been
more welcoming to  non-comforming contributors.

That said I hope this thread doesn't discourage people to get involved.
Everything can be improved but Sugar is perhaps the most welcoming free
software community I know of... For good or for bad, "sweet words" aren't
really what you are normally met by if your ideas or patches are not
considered high quality enough by the existing community.
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