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Discussion on: How can open source contributors and maintainers engage in a respectful ongoing relationship?

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Sebastian Vargr

Respectful language.

I do not have a lot of open source experience, but i have a lot from working with teams across the planet.

Both theirs and mine have boiled because of short or socially unaware comments. :)

Probably the most annoying part is that the only reason i personally started to behave better is because someone offhanded showed me an article about PR language about 2 years ago.

It made me realize that wording things differently not only meant less discussion, it also helped me see my own style biases, which made me a better developer.

We need more awareness on this, but not in a Linus stops working kinda way.
It needs to be constructive.