Re: Code Of Conduct

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:23 +0200, Anne �tergaard wrote:

> I have personally had the feeling over the past couple of years that the
> general atmosphere in the GNOME community has hardened. 
> 
I don't think its has hardened as much as grown older. Going back 5
years we where 'all' in our early/mid twenties or late teens with a lot 
extra energy and exploring a new frontier. Today a lot of the same
people are around, getting close to or having passed thirty. Hair is
thinning, greying or receding, bellies growing and the long term effect
of a coke and pizza diet is taking its toll on both mind and body. These
people have grown wise with age, but also their patience and energy to
help newbie number 1000 who asks a less informed question have fallen.

So answers tend either to not be forthcoming or being short often
feeling a bit curt, maybe just a 'sorry WONTFIX'. The regrowth of
younger developers, who might have the energy to devote to helping the
lost noobs, tend to want to defer answering questions to the old wizards
in the fear of saying something wrong as things have also grown more
complicated since those early days.

I don't think we can solve this apart from enforcing retirement from the
community once passed 30 to keep our average young and energetic :)

Christian