I’m not sure what happened last week, but it seems that the difficult users all decided to come out of the woodwork all at once. Maybe it had something to do with the phase of the moon or the change in daylight savings time?
For those of you not paying close attention, I’m referring to these tickets.
So not to make this a rant (I think I’ve done that enough), this is just a friendly reminder that Free/Open Source Software developers are:
- Not your slave
- Generally pretty busy with things like a job and personal lives
- Working on the project in their free time
- Writing code because they enjoy it. When they stop enjoying it, they’ll stop writing code and then where will you be?
Hence, try to treat these developers with a little respect. I’m not saying you have to kiss their feet or anything like that, but remember that you’ll catch more flies with honey then vinegar.