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On 21 December 2012 18:02, Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 21 December 2012 17:36, Ciaran McCreesh |
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> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:21:57 +0000 |
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>> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Your tone is not appropriate for discussion. If you don't like the |
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>>> existing policy, bring it to the list with a better |
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>>> attitude so we can try and discuss it. But given that you want to pick |
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>>> a fight with your email, I will most likely ignore this |
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>>> thread and keep doing our job like we do for many years. |
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>> http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m93x01rSVK1qjvxfho1_1280.jpg |
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> And that also makes a convenient way to always ignore the tone of an |
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> argument, regardless of whether it is justified or not. |
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> I find that Markos' objection is not unfounded and your argument is |
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> irrelevant here. |
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To expand on that a bit -- it's fair game to discuss whether we should |
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give more leeway before pinging idle devs, but pouncing on the people |
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doing to work of trying to make sure packages don't fall off the radar |
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and remain unmaintained is counter-productive and detrimental. |
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-- |
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Arun Raghavan |
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http://arunraghavan.net/ |
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(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) |