Re: GnomeGradeBook...

[Bradley Burnside <bradley@voyager.net>]

I'm sorry that's the way it came out.  I was implying constructive criticism...not
flame-like criticism.  More like critiquing the program instead of mocking me.  I was
just saying that the group has good collaboration and that your comments were helping
to make a better piece of software.  Sorry about the confusion
            bradley burnside


Doug Loss wrote:

> Bradley Burnside wrote:
> >
> > BTW don't feel bad about criticizing me, I think this open collaboration is what
> > makes the open source framework so good. So send me ideas!
>
> I know you didn't mean that the way it came out, but we're not
> criticizing _you_, we're commenting on your gradebook program and how it
> might be improved.  It's important to make the separation between the
> person and the work.  If I make a mistake in something I do, I want to
> know about it; that doesn't mean that that mistake is somehow
> representative of a basic failing in me as a person.
>
> --
> Doug Loss                 A life spent making mistakes is not only
> Data Network Coordinator  more honorable, but more useful than a
> Bloomsburg University     life spent doing nothing.
> dloss@bloomu.edu                G. B. Shaw