Re: my latest blog post

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I wrote this:
>
>    But please do not demand of others to explain everything in detail.
>    (I’m directing this at everyone who heeds my advice to go to
>    guile-devel, not at any one person in particular.)
>
> Rephrasing: I’d like to point this out to people who take this
> opportunity to bemoan the lack of other features or who disagree with
> what they think are different priorities.  You do not feel addressed if
> you know you’ve made efforts in this area.
>
>> And saying I should come on guile-dev and actually provide what I thin is
>> useful, nowing that I can't (not immediately is not a fair answer either
>>
>> Because it's equivalent to a "fuck you"

I think at a moment like this it's important to step back a
moment... Wikipedia has a good philosophy here called "Assume Good
Faith":

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

Making Guile into a friendlier environment for newcomers is important.
But if we are to have a friendly environment, the only way that can
happen is if we believe that in general we have a culture of
collaboration.  That doesn't mean we don't hold people accountable if
they are clearly demonstrating disrespectful or hostile behavior.  But
there's no way to have a collaborative environment if we don't try to
give people the benefit of the doubt that they wish to work together to
improve things.