[Asterisk-Dev] 'tonezone' in chan_zap.c

[Nick Bachmann]

Preston Garrison wrote:

> While I agree code is a very good way to learn whats going on, and its 
> important to analyze it.  Crucifying someone over a question is 
> stupid.  Alot of time it takes alot less time to answer the question 
> then to bitch why it was asked in the first place.  

Here's the thing(TM): nobody on this list is paid to answer these 
questions (I guess unless Brian West answers a question from Tony :).  
The list is like a market: we subscribe to this list because we want a 
specific type of information, and in exchange, we must offer some useful 
information back for the whole process to work.  What we're looking for 
here is useful development information, not rants, configuration 
questions, or other general offtopic-ness (including this whole thread) 
and nonsense; this is a place where both the seasoned Asterisk hacker 
and the apprentice coder can communicate, but only if the apprentice can 
ask an informed question.  Messages that don't ask informed questions 
just irritate the people with the most information to offer and degrade 
the quality of the list.

Another great part about a list for hackers is that the people you're 
talking to should mostly be your peer hackers.  As such, you have a 
little more latitude for being blunt.  There is a difference between 
bluntness and rudeness. See the section in 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html on "Dealing with 
rudeness".  In fact, that whole document is worth of everyone's reading.

> Btw documenting the code isn't really pheasable, i know I would never 
> take the time to document my code, and I have a feeling most 
> developers would tend to agree with me :)

I hope you were kidding.

Nick

P.S. The section called "Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled 
language" in ESR's FAQ is probably worth reading as well...