mercuria destroys everyone's work

[Lester Caine]

On 14/01/16 11:25, Franklin M. Siler wrote:
> In a perfect world, everyone involved in a conversation would be civil from the start.  The reality is that, of course, our world is complex- and if someone is using a product, paid or not, that frustrates them, they may fire off an intemperate email.  This does not excuse a nasty reply.  It’s perfectly fine to say nothing, or give a hollow commiseration, or whatever.

There has been a substantial and ongoing debate on the PHP internals
list taking this debate to another level, and the main problem is that
many people don't recognise the lack or not of civility on the list. And
some claim to feeling threaten, which is the 'toxic' problem that list
is trying to address ... with more heated exchanges :(

A quick scan of previous posts from Philippe indicate that his fellow
programmers are having a problem understanding the different working
practices that any DVCS system impose. The information that they are
working with source material stored on a shared drive is new, although
their trying to symbolic link material into a repository was the problem
last month. Since many contributors do not have English as a first
language, explanations of a problem can require a little reading between
the lines. David's comment was perfectly acceptable although the image
has to be taken a little tongue in cheek. But *I* take your suggestion
that only Al's comment about the use of windows shares was helpful as
somewhat questionable!

Learning just how to live with a different way of working does require a
little detachment of normal long learnt keyboard actions and a switch to
a new set of actions. The continual change of basic operations right
across all Os's means that it IS all to easy these days to hit the wrong
key at times and screw something up :(

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