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

[Fernando Frediani]

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Fernando

On 6 May 2016 at 12:05, Daniel Dickinson <lede at daniel.thecshore.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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