Re: The importance of civil communication on the list (was Re: Fucked up gnustep-make)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 15.02.2007 um 15:32 schrieb Jeff Teunissen:

> Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > While I realize this is an open forum, it makes us look really  
> > unprofessional
> > to have profanity in the subject lines or in the messages.   I  
> > would appreciate
> > it if we all could please make our communications on the list free  
> > of profanity.
>
> Why, why WHY in the name of all that is good should anyone in a  
> Free Software
> project act professional?

Because we want GNUstep to be successful? Because that means GNUstep  
has to be used in professional environments for that? Because we  
gain, given GNUstep is used professionally, better code review,  
better stability, more applications developed using GNUstep, more  
testing, lesser bugs.

> It's not a company, it's a hobby.

That attitude of some currently shows in GNUstep. Some professional  
developers I talked to regard GNUstep as a playtoy of grown up boys  
because of the overall quality. If for instance the Apache guys had  
the same attitude nobody would (and could) use Apache (professionally).

regards, lars