Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:41:01 -0600 schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>:
Five step plan to success: 1) Actually contribute instead of whining on a mailing list
Is saying one's opinion whining? How long since? And, yes, I am already contributing in AUR, I've already written a split PKGBUILD for libreoffice-i18n which Andreas hopefully will add to [extra] soon. And I've already written a cryptsetup related patch for rc.sysinit which I sent to Thomas. So I don't think that I'm not contributing.
2) Get your name known in the TU/dev circles
I already met some devs and a TU personally. And I don't think that they had the impression that I'm whining. Instead we had some nice conversations.
3) Apply for a position where you can contribute more
As soon as it's possible.
4) Have your opinion actually count because we know you do work instead of act as a roadblock
Some people know that I'm already working if possible.
5) Become jaded like the rest of us, realizing that users always think the world is ending, and when they say "this is shame", "I'm leaving", "you suck", "developers are selfish", none of the developers have ever really cared and would rather poisonous people leave anyway.
I never said "I'm leaving" or something like that. That some developers are selfish is indeed my impression. Read: Some. By far not every developer. Heiko