[Sugar-devel] Regarding contribution to sugarlabs

[James Cameron]

G'day Michael,

Thanks for your opinion.  I wasn't intending to be rude, and I gave as
much information as I could.  I do want people to contribute.

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 04:45:14PM -0500, Michael Gill wrote:
> G'day James,
> 
> Please read my middle finger.  It says, "How to get people to NOT contribute to
> an open-source project."
> 
> There are plenty of ways to give back.  Sugar is obviously not a good one. 
> I'll look for projects where people aren't so rude.  For example, Mozilla is
> not quite so high-minded as OLPC, but I've really had good experience with
> their project management and their people.  I recommend people look there.
> 
> Adios Asshole!
> Michael Gill
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 2:49 PM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     G'day Navyasri,
> 
>     Thanks for asking.  Tell us how you are confused and why you need
>     help?
> 
>     Your question was not insightful.  You don't seem to be able to help
>     yourself.  Please read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way";
> 
>             [2]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 
>     Your question looks just the same as many of the other questions we've
>     been receiving.  It's not a good approach to solving problems.  Please
>     read the article "How to ask for directions";
> 
>             [3]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-October/
>     055788.html
> 
>     See also "How to get started as a Sugar Labs developer [v5]"
> 
>             [4]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-February/
>     056304.html
> 
>     Once you've read all those, ask a new question, on the mailing list if
>     the question is general, or on an issue if specfic to an issue.
> 
>     p.s. you didn't need to say who you are, because it was already in
>     your e-mail address.
> 
>     p.p.s. you didn't need to say you were at any specific university;
>     because it really does not matter.  What does matter is working source
>     code.  Show us that, and we're interested.
> 
>     On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:50:52AM +0530, navyasri reddy wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I am navyasri from IIIT Hyderabad. I am 5th year student and want to
>     contribute
>     > to sugarlabs to the second one on maintaining sugar activities. I have
>     seen the
>     > help documentation for starters but i am a bit confused from where to
>     start. A
>     > little help would be great to start.
>     >
>     > Thank you,
>     > Navyasri
> 
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> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> [3] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-October/055788.html
> [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-February/056304.html
> [5] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [6] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [7] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [8] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [9] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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