Re: Emacs inserts hardwired org-agenda-files variable, overwriting user options

[TRS-80]

On 2020-11-29 17:08, daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
> Yes, there are problems with the documentation.  I noticed recently 
> that
> some guy criticised the manual, and so many got super defensive.  You 
> should
> give him a medal for telling you how things are.

I guess in my mind, complaining about the manual, to a bunch of
volunteers and fellow users, is probably on the pretty unhelpful end of
the scale.

Making constructive criticism is then slightly better, at least you are
not deriding (mostly volunteer) people's work and effort.  Although not
by much, as this still does not require too much effort.

However submitting a patch with an improvement to the documentation is
quite valuable.  Pretty much on the opposite end of the scale in fact.
And thus, only this level of contribution "deserves a medal" as far as I
am concerned.

I was not privy to particulars of conversation you mention, although I
have seen this sort of entitled attitude often enough in F/LOSS to have
somewhat of an idea of how it might have played out.

Entitled users becoming demanding of things they expect (for free, no
less) is not just a drag, it's the cancer that slowly kills F/LOSS
projects.  As eventually actually valuable contributors (maintainers,
devs, etc.) have had enough of it, get burnt out and leave the project.
I have seen it far too many times over the years.

So I imagine what you witnessed was a sort of natural defense mechanism,
protecting the overall health of the community and project by having a
strong reaction to such negative attitudes.

Cheers,
TRS-80