Communication & failure

[Pinaraf]

Hi

On 7/18/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Hello all students,
>
> [SNIP]
>
> This is the spirit of Open Source and of the KDE community: communication
> & friendship. We talk to each other, we ask (stupid) questions on IRC and
> we cry out when someone breaks our code. We have huge flame-wars on
> mailing lists about the tiniest of the problems, but in the end we come
> out of them in even friendlier terms. This is not something we can teach
> you, though...
I really LOVE this point of view :p
So, to sum up : a good summer of code student must create flame wars
on the mailing lists.... That's really an interesting concept. :)