| From: | Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists(at)toco-domains(dot)de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Commitfest problems |
| Date: | 2014-12-20 06:32:49 |
| Message-ID: | 54951811.9090204@catalyst.net.nz |
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On 20/12/14 11:22, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> On 12/19/2014 12:28 AM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>>> To me that's a bit over the top stereotyping.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Having been mentioned one or two times myself - it was an unexpected
>> "wow - cool" rather than a grumpy/fragile "I must be noticed" thing. I
>> think some folk have forgotten the underlying principle of the open
>> source community - it is about freely giving - time or code etc. The
>> "there must be something in it for me me me" meme is - well - the
>> *other* world view.
>
> It was supposed to be over the top. That doesn't make it any less true.
> Sure there are plenty of us that don't have any of the ego petting
> issues. However,t there are more of us in those of us that think we
> don't, that really, really do.
>
Heh - that fact that even you are stating it is over the top clearly
makes it less *generally* true. Sure, there are some/few(?) folk who are
seeing open source contributions as purely a CV enhancer, and perhaps a
few in denial about their egos, but I don't see that as the common trend
in this community (which is great).
regards
Mark
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