Re: demo assistant

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

El May 2, 2010, a las 7:08 PM, deloptes <deloptes yahoo com> escribió:
> I'm not insulted at all. "This often happens in an open source  
> environment."

Why then the insult below?  Why insult if you were not insulted?

> > > This is exactly like firstlevel support in an odd company, where
> > > something
> > > is said only to bounce the customer back.
> > > I can not demand on more cooperativeness (as we are doing all this
> > > on free
> > > bases), but it would be extremely nice and helpful if you'd do so.
> > > (And by
> > > you I mean all)
> >
> > Don't get confused by thinking that people that help out freely out  
> > of
> > the enjoyment of programming are actually part of the company in
> > charge of *mm projects.  Some of us offer our services out of a  
> > desire
> > to exert our abilities and contribute to a fine open source community
> > such as this one.
> >
> > We post our contributions just like you do and then leave it up to  
> > the
> > maintainers to accept the patches, comment on them or reject them if
> > they like.  It's all part of the process.
>
> I'm aware of all of this, thanks. I also understand, there are  
> different
> people and by one single mail you can not guess what the other part is
> really thinking of.
> I, personally, needed some advice by someone more experienced with  
> gtkmm and
> the specific problem I had. It is also not about a solution but more  
> about
> an elegant one, so I can safely wait until the example in the docs  
> has been
> updated. I'm experienced enough to find my own solution, but from  
> time to
> time I need a guidance especially in newer area like gtkmm.

That sounds like a contrdiction.  If you're experienced enough, you  
should be able to find your own solution.  Unless, of course, it is  
beyond your experience (which of course happens to the best of us).

> I don't think that it's worth discussing all of it, if it were I  
> would have
> replied earlier.
>
> You can safely cc me when the docs are updated.

I won't be able to do that since I won't know when that is, but if you  
pay attention to the releases of the relevant module they will tell  
you when things have been updated.  Happy coding.

--
José