Re:How to get an open source community to be interested in h...
by icebraining on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:47AM
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No disagreement that the developer is unnecessarily hostile.
That said, your reading is not very charitable. Mine was:
* Developer reflectively responds to the question as stated
* Developer then thinks "wait a minute, why 3 characters?"
* Developer assumes questioner knows that extensions are called extensions, because "everyone" (certainly "everyone in a tech IRC channel") knows. Speaking from personal experience, this is an easy trap to fall into
* The response of the questioner ("yes", rather than "maybe, what's an extension?") confirms that assumption in the developer's mind
That said, your reading is not very charitable. Mine was:
* Developer reflectively responds to the question as stated
* Developer then thinks "wait a minute, why 3 characters?"
* Developer assumes questioner knows that extensions are called extensions, because "everyone" (certainly "everyone in a tech IRC channel") knows. Speaking from personal experience, this is an easy trap to fall into
* The response of the questioner ("yes", rather than "maybe, what's an extension?") confirms that assumption in the developer's mind