[LEDE-DEV] Why technical elitism is contrary to stated goal of community

[Daniel Dickinson]

Hi all,

I have noticed that some of the policies of this project are already
veering towards a brand of technical elitism that I feel is completely
contrary to the stated goal of having a stronger community.

A strong community welcomes 'outsiders' and noobs and helps them find
their place in the community and *helps* them learn how to to
participate in a friendly, open manner.

Technical elitism tends give a 'you're not good enough / you don't think
like us, go away' feel to a community.  The 'we won't event look at your
bug report if it doesn't meet the special format we came up with that no
one else uses' policy is I fear an example of this.  I realize the
reason for it is to try and get better quality bug reports, and less
ones that aren't useful, but I don't think that is necessarily a good
way to about it.

If LEDE is *serious* about community some of it's core members need to
rethink how they approach contributions and the project.  Perhaps time
is the issue, and perhaps the issue is attitude, or perhaps it's a bit
of both.  Either way, if nothing genuinely changes from what was the
case in OpenWrt, this project and OpenWrt will both die.

Regards,

Daniel