Re: [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:15:52PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> I don't have anything to to contribute beyond psuedo-quoting Ludo: let's not
> lose our hair over this!

+1

I think our presence on this mailing list shows that we all have a
common goal: the creation and continued improvement of a free software
distribution and operating system.

For practical reasons, I think that we need to try our best to interpret
each others' messages charitably.

Communicating tone and emotion through the English language is hard
enough for those of us who learned it as our first language. There are a
handful of professional writers who have mastered this art, and they
earn a lot of money for it.

The rest of us, myself included, have to accept that we will sometimes
be misinterpreted, and that we will sometimes misinterpret others. So, I
hope we can remember our common goal, give the benefit of the doubt, and
try to let perceived slights slide, since they may not have even been
intended in the first place. Like I said, communicating tone effectively
through written language is very hard, at least with English.