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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel , calcium Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=2; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1642032333; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=ERAYsa1atDuE6QQtIKOLtDXQu7askmh+sTz/e56GOdo=; b=rn6I2fMQxShxNygIIe9TeAr9bG+KmFtPA14NXSL4bmMhoNy/NZGHyCRKovPs1c3ClddiYe BpVC5KC3Sh0gYK9Q9RQH0EFsGS8CGjlmEH05ezpYv4aFfY+z0FbZOx8p+Xcng5CTH0WGAp yMyXwzpdGkYM7y59HG9u8Vh74DZCfSg8DTL+G5JF0hEL6Vt8LCOP4p5Y5snS/xsc7rZPju RlvVtkRCNqbdhcW2lqHQMFr37jhAMXVNUnSD9zEVGzM2fyE8JXzIp7IjxOJSxhA10UvbKk QHMDDVgaeRSpnREXNR8l0OTnOjVVHadhhh+QaCgXWc8T0BtafnclZUjKN63EFg== ARC-Seal: i=2; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1642032333; a=rsa-sha256; cv=fail; b=MvBs+qmOImi2Qji4iHCL7l/NbKxQoM3t7K2NBWn69JZ5NqSDNKpOJmhTlmSkVrHCTijukF 7zZM5322XBDB1eHsAtONBvTRfxzTtsBrySrjzzXzCQw4ZrPH4SDPCC9SCEcY4X0XUTk3n9 BDRScSNAXzj0+fbhISSLcePaSXhPr988SjjWFPSGYOWvzCMBr2ka1CKXs073nfu2BsuTM+ 2DL2tI3hFOIHpcrjMRg41CDH6/j3TfKqaXfaJ7ZdTKuMUgKR+lB5eiBoszQRym1+xs7tUM mIwYpOikrT+UA/Opvwet9IL9toKHX9jUFY2KJ4GcQMQsXqUw5l9KLANNtAEVXg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=2; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=excalamus.com header.s=zmail header.b="I6as1/yx"; arc=reject ("signature check failed: fail, {[1] = sig:zohomail.com:reject}"); dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -1.11 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=excalamus.com header.s=zmail header.b="I6as1/yx"; arc=reject ("signature check failed: fail, {[1] = sig:zohomail.com:reject}"); dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 2AF4F17D9A X-Spam-Score: -1.11 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: h9OB9XdWNtYR ---- On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:41:10 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote ---- > On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 04:12:57PM -0500, Matt wrote: > > I did. Maybe you missed the two blog posts I linked in the previous email? > > Yeah, I did miss that you intended to contribute them. > > There is another side of my advice about submitting your contributions > however you can: It's still important to try to communicate clearly. > Your message includes several paragraphs of meta-discussion before > mentioning that you have some things to contribute, rather than just a > desire to contribute in general. Based on that, both me and Ricardo did > not understand that your blog posts were potential contributions. > > Sorry if that comes across as harsh, but it's always true that > successful collaboration is helped by clear and concise communication. > > Maybe that's a good thing, maybe it's a bad thing. It's the reality in > any collaborative environment where people are busy. > > So, if you have a goal, my advice is to state it clearly and concisely. > > If you have both long-term goals (make it easier to contribute > documentation) and short-term goals (add some Cookbook recipes or wiki > pages), then you should present them separately, or else people will > only focus on one of them. > This is good advice. I will take it to heart. I see how the ways I approached things didn't set things up for success. Thank you.