On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:58:56PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
[...]
> If these people fail to understand my _primitive_ English, then they surely
> fail to read NEWS and ChangeLog files, they certainly cannot talk to upstream,
> and therefore don't qualify as good package maintainers.  They haven't
> read good books and papers because these books (and especially papers) are
> mostly written in English, so they probably do not understand code well enough.
> If they want to be good package maintainers, then they have to learn this
> "ugly language".  And if they won't learn, why should I help them?

I'm sure that basic English reading skills are strictly necessary to
maintain packages with free software.
If somebody tells me that he doesn't understand my plain English,
I can answer him that I don't trust his packages by definition.


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ldv