I’ve found as time has gone on that I prefer to be given direct actionable requests. Something like “It’d be cool to check out a new place for lunch” is gong to be ignored, compared to “We will go to for lunch.”
Similarly, I’ve a coworker who is a wonderful person and who leaves comments in pull requests like “maybe foo would be better here if it handled condition bar”–and when I read that, I think “maybe that would be cooler, but I have to get work done”, and I may ignore it; after all, if it required fixing, they’d’ve said as much, right?
In general, anything that would be in the subjunctive case (in Latin anyways) is something I think people will likely ignore: if you need action, describe a clear objective.
If you also tell us why you need it, we might opine you actually don’t and there is a better way of doing it.
This part is a little bit of an anti-pattern, though. Hearing devsplaining is annoying as hell if you need something done soon and don’t have the patience or time to hold court and bring somebody up to speed.
You should have a look at the video link in the article of his talk about the subject, I thought it was very funny. Seen it live at one of the NLNOG events.
I’ve found as time has gone on that I prefer to be given direct actionable requests. Something like “It’d be cool to check out a new place for lunch” is gong to be ignored, compared to “We will go to for lunch.”
Similarly, I’ve a coworker who is a wonderful person and who leaves comments in pull requests like “maybe foo would be better here if it handled condition bar”–and when I read that, I think “maybe that would be cooler, but I have to get work done”, and I may ignore it; after all, if it required fixing, they’d’ve said as much, right?
In general, anything that would be in the subjunctive case (in Latin anyways) is something I think people will likely ignore: if you need action, describe a clear objective.
This part is a little bit of an anti-pattern, though. Hearing devsplaining is annoying as hell if you need something done soon and don’t have the patience or time to hold court and bring somebody up to speed.
You should have a look at the video link in the article of his talk about the subject, I thought it was very funny. Seen it live at one of the NLNOG events.