How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People

CoolVibe writes "Two Subversion developers talk at Google about how to keep pests and malcontents out of your open source projects. From the abstract: 'Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences.'"

That's easy...

[__aaclcg7560]

Lock them out and tell them to become Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot.

With swamp boots

[dmayle]

...with swamp boots, just like everybody else, right?

hmm

[nomadic]

Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful.

AKA "coders".

Re:What I learned working on NetBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, don't badmouth Theo just because he didn't like your "Let's install Firefox suid root!" idea.

Re:I'll tell you about this one guy

[Anonymous Coward]

You haven't banned him because...?

Because he's my boss.

Re:Video link

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see - Linxu fails to gain acceptance because
People buy Windows and, with it, get support then they download Linux for free and do not buy support but expect free forums to provide the same level of support. Yeah, you're really smart.

Re:Not every "poisonous" person is easy to spot

[Joebert]

Ever since the harassment case, I'm required by law to leave my balls at home.
Besides, it's balls that usually start the problems in the first place.

Re:Link is a video

[HTH NE1]

No, I don't browse with

a[href]:after { content: " <" attr(href) ">"; }

in my stylesheet. That would be more annoying than running my mouse over the link text and diverting my vision to the status line for every link on a page.

I barely tolerate this more useful rule:

a[name]:before { content: "[#" attr(name) "] "; }

which gets really bad when sites don't close named anchors before opening multiple paragraphs or throughout their navigation bars, thinking their closure is implied.

Re:Video link

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why I use debian. Half of debian users would have told you to go screw yourself after your first post simply because they are mean like that. After your first 1 or 2 replies, 99% of debian users would tell you to go screw yourself and not feel bad at all about your claiming the distro was bad or that you love windows/osx/whatever bullshit you use.

Not everyone that runs linux really cares whether or not you run linux. I commend these ubuntu people for having so much patience for so long. As a debian user though, go fuck yourself.

Re:Video link

[greg_barton]

Well, I have to ascertain whether *all* Linux distros are built around poor design, or whether it was just an Ubuntu thing. The evidence leads to the former.

I think the evidence leads to the fact that you're an asshole.