On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Aaron Brady
<castironpi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah I see. Too informal and hasty. For the record, I like these parts
of this link:
"...claim you have found a bug, you'll be impugning their competence,
which may offend..."
and
"...it is best to write as though you assume you are doing something
wrong, even if you are privately pretty sure..."
Is it appropriate to share what I'm pleased with?
Adrian,
Yes, that article is quite good and you'll see it linked on technical mailing lists a lot. I recommend reading the whole article if you have time. It's by Eric Raymond, which many people have differing opinions on, but most people seem to agree that that particular article sums up technical fora's etiquette quite well.
As far as what's appropriate, I don't know. I didn't find anything offensive about your post, but then again I'm not a core Pygame developer. They're pretty cool guys though, and your post was probably not offensive to anyone, which is why I said "FYI" not "RTFM", so you'd know that in some situations a bug report can be misconstrued :) In general it's better to err on the side of politeness when you're first approaching a new group and only moving to more familiar terminology once you've been on the list for a while and you've got a good feeling for how everyone talks to each other. I don't know how long you've been on this particular list though, just some general advice.
I attempted 'inflate', but didn't account for the width. I just tried
a range of constants.