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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed translation error in config.c file
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 07:01:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlhh0scz5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACnwZYd-hhS2w33rsQ9xR__gdnCUC8ni2ot=KqViWLNjnWFhjQ@mail.gmail.com> (Thiago Farina's message of "Thu, 7 May 2015 10:39:30 -0300")

Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So what should the Title be? Please i am learning this community so i
>> have to make a lot of mistakes. Pardon me.
> Allow me to say something? Forgive me if it sounds rude, as it might sound.
>
> Git community is highly technical and is about developing and
> improving Git scm tool.
>
> To be honest, I think it is not a place to learn C or how to
> contribute to open source projects.

FWIW, I do not mind explaining things to new people. Teaching new
people is how you grow the community.

I however have finite time budget for that kind of activity, and it
annoys me when I see that an earlier suggestion was apparently not
read, and a question is asked when its answer is already in the
mailbox of who is asking it, e.g.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268484

in which I had to repeat what I said in:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268335

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 20:51 [PATCH] Fixed translation error in config.c file Alangi Derick
2015-05-06 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-07 11:36   ` Alangi Derick
2015-05-07 13:39     ` Thiago Farina
2015-05-07 14:01       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-05-07 16:28 ` Eric Sunshine

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