Re: WARNING: SMPP: PDU element <password> to long (length is 9, should be 9)

Pedro B. wrote:
> I was willing (as i stated to Stipe) to do some fast patches for the 
> docs before 1.4 was released - that's why i say the aspell was a nice 
> and useful thing (note: not "usefull", a word that appears 12 (!) times 
> with a grep -R on the 1.4 release) but i will not play the role of 
> elementary school teacher to all the ceo's, managers and chiefs. It 
> would be ... innapropriate.
> 
> Besides, "usefull" and "to long" are as bad as "1+1=4". Doing patches 
> for the obvious is a regression on evolution... ;)
> 
> My former email was more in the form of an advice, due to the fact i 
> have recently crossed business paths with what may be called "open 
> source specialist software counselor consultants" that automatically 
> reject any and all forms of software implementation where their first 
> comments looking at source files are "we can't trust a product whose 
> developers can't spell, they look like they are less than 10 years old - 
> when they will go to college support will stop".
> Ok, this particular example was not truly realistic, i can't believe 
> noone would be so harsh over any open source product, but i think noone 
> wants Kannel to fall on that category.
> The acceptance for Open Source is growing and spreading, but with that 
> acceptance, more professionalism is inherent.
> Even if it's for a free product.
> And we're talking about elementary school grammar... it's not a 
> difficult "feature", is it?

I do agree, in some terms at least.

Yes, it would be great to have that typos out of the comments. But as 
I mentioned before. Several people have contributed to the project, 
and some of them are excellent system architects and coders and don't 
have a multi-talent skill to fit the same level in languages.

So this is a generic trade-off situation. Would you pick rather a good 
software/system architect that is not perfect in english, or have a 
person that does not any grammer typos, but fails to understand and 
inherit crussial system design aspects?

Now, as a representative of the "upper management class", I'd say, 
none of both perspectives is at the optimum. So we have to leaverage.

And now... where are the damn patches? ;))

Stipe

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