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El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:
Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.
This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.
Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.
Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:56PM (2 children)
When I was doing QA for MacTCP I wrote to the SNMP list and just asked them to "tell me about SNMP".
Some right chap flamed me mercilessly, but after I pointed out that there was a human being at the other end of the Internet, he apologized and was quite helpful.
What he angrily told me was that the SNMP list was for experienced developers.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)
Master Troll, tell me about your mastery of trolling? Is it true you are secretly Eris Blaster? How many other blasters are you? Did you code MacTCP and MacIPX and MacAppleLocalPhaseTalk and are you that guy who gave stupid things stupid names like Finder and Chooser and So-Sue-Me?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:11PM
I previously said that I did Quality Assurance for MacTCP.
This involved debugging the original test tool then writing a new one, so no I didn't code MacTCP.
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