>1. Have you contributed to OSS?
The only popular project I was apart of was
esoTalk. I was a co-maintainer, mostly bug fixes, skin porting, and writing some plugins. Also moderating the support forum which I still do a little bit.
>2. How did a community manager/project manager interact with you (positively/negatively)?
I think we kept everything positive. After all, we all wanted a better product. As long as someone was trying to contribute there was no reason to be negative. We were also never large enough were we had more than 5 or 6 people contributing. We all sort of knew each other as friends.
>3. Would you be willing to link to a repository/issue tracker where the event happened?
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>4. After reading this article do you see some of Lennart's concerns or do you think they are false?I don't think they're false necessarily. He has some good points that some of the verbal abuse that comes out of the 'upper tiered' developers is harsh. He does a lot of generalizing when he refers to the Linux community. You can certainly be apart of the community and not be told off. It would be more accurate to say, if you want to get into lower level kernel development you may be in contact with some people who care more about their ideal codebase than showing empathy for those who want to help.
>I recently read a response in r/linux that suggested that us linux users should communicate with each other using source code, that there might be fewer misunderstandings.
I'm not sure if this was a half-serious response on reddit, but I think if you can't write to where people can understand you, you should be banished to the basement with Mordac.