Re: gEDA-user: Editing elements in PCB is too complicated

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See this is the thing with being uhm "curt"..... Is your issue likely to 
be moved up or down the lets do that next list? I (as I am spoiled) like 
my issues moving towards the top. When was the last time I bought the 
developers a beer? Have to look into that. Stuart, when is geda/gaf 
going to take donations?

Ohh, by the way DJ, I also think this is a proam list. But the spirit of 
your message was right on. Heck yea we are interested in cool techy 
things that people do. And if they happen to be off toppic we will chew 
on you, when we remember too, but first we will go and look at the neat 
pictures ;).

Steve M.

harry eaton wrote:

> > > I don't know what "go out of one's way mean" - do you know German
> > > equivalent?
> > >      
> > "sich grosse Mühe geben" or perhaps "sich besonders anstrengen".
> >
> > I think it might also be worth noting that when a native German speaker
> > communicates in English it can sometimes sound rather curt or brusque
> > even though that may not be the intent.
> >    
>
> Consider:
>
> "gsch2pcb produces crap!"
> "PCB realign grid sucks"
> "PCB realign grid sucks squared"
> "the stupid design of the realign feature"
> "Bugzilla appears to be a shit to me"
> "Actually QCAD sucks..."
>
> These types of statements pretty much nail the definition of "going out of
> his way" to offend, and it's not a translation issue, it is intentional;
> Karel has argued that it's the proper way to act on more than one occasion.
>
> For example it would be far more diplomatic to say something like:
> "PCB realign grid doesn't work" or
> "PCB realign grid is extremely hard to use" or
> "PCB realign grid would work much better with snap while realigning" or
> "PCB realign grid should take numerical text offset entries instead of using
> the cursor" or
> anything else constructive.
>
> h.
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