[Nix-dev] Call For Maintainers - Fractalide BETA release

[Herwig Hochleitner]

2017-01-12 12:08 GMT+01:00 stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:
> > Not sure what this has to do with nix-dev?
>
> tough crowd, tough crowd.
>

Hi Stewart,

Profpatsch is actually being quite courteous by politely pointing out that
your message fails to be relevant to nix-dev, instead of ignoring you, like
the rest of us do.

Look at it this way: Your sending a simple mail to this list potentially
bumps the hard-earned inbox-zero of _hundreds_ of people, all of which
signed up for the express purpose of keeping up with Nix and NixOS
development. By diluting relevant content in this list, you make it more
likely for people to disengage, thus draining the very lifeblood of the
community.
For this reason, it is unacceptable in any community I can think of, to
post job-offers to the dev list, let alone unpaid ones, let alone in
long-winded page-turners.

There are many, more appropriate places for such offers, including #nixos
and /r/NixOS/

I get that you're excited about your project and want to see it grow (just
the same as all of us feel about our pet projects) and I'm sorry for
wording this message so sharply. It's just, I've seen you repeatedly
demonstrate having trouble adjusting to community norms on this list. That
in and of itself is forgiveable, many hackers share that trait, including
myself. Though, when called on it, you could take a course of backing off
politely in the future, instead of laying blame on everybody else.

kind regards
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