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

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 11:05 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm not sure what the right answer is.

But where resources are limited, good bug reports make the difference
between things actually getting fixed, or not. A bad bug report can
even be *counterproductive* because others might just see that it's
already reported, and not bother to engage... despite the fact that the
existing bug report isn't going to help get the problem fixed.

So if someone says that only good bug reports are going to get
handled.... is that "technical elitism"? Or is it purely self-
awareness, and the team being aware of its own limitations and trying
to set expectations accordingly?

To *assume* that it's some kind of technical elitism seems a little
wrong, to me.

-- 
dwmw2

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