On 13 January 2016 at 13:55, Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com> wrote:
> People *can* take offense when you say their code is not good enough,
> particularly when it is true,
Well I would hope that you wouldn't say so if it wasn't. :)
My point is that most people won't be posting code here going "this is
a bit crap, but I'll post it anyway". Chances are, especially if
they're new, they will have checked and double-checked it beforehand.
Any things that are "not good enough", as you say, are likely to be
things that they couldn't really be expected to have known, given
their limited experience of the codebase.
So all I'm saying is: try to be gentle and encouraging, rather than
blunt and critical.
> But I would hope that if the focus is on
> improvement of the software the this becomes at least a bit less of a
> problem..
Yeah, telling someone "it's for your own good" has always been shown to help. :)
G