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By coincidence, our anonymous developer survey coincided with a pair of articles from Linux Weekly News on similar topics in the GNU Linux kernel mailing lists: “Making kernel developers less grumpy” and “On mocking”.
http://lwn.net/Articles/500443/ http://lwn.net/Articles/501670/ |
The second article was a response to the user comments to the first article, many of which focused on the last sentence: “Sometimes public mocking is part of the process and can actually help instill that pride more widely”.
One of the take-aways for me was that the kernel developers were quite aware of their reputation for being unpleasant, but they still had more patches than they could really deal with (given the limited number of reviewers), so they were content to drive away some potential contributors.
That’s a trade-off that I can respect, but I don’t think that LilyPond is in that position. We have a problem keeping main developers motivated+happy, so in this case we can’t point to the kernel hackers as an example to imitate.
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