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"Thomas Tuttle" <gentoo@×××××××.net> posted |
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1184604111.15155.1200413171@×××××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, |
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on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:41:51 -0400: |
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> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:54:44 -0400, "Daniel Drake" <dsd@g.o> |
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> said: |
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>> I do like the "gentoo-politics" idea that came up a few weeks ago, |
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>> which was to move politics off gentoo-dev and to another list, but I'd |
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>> view it from another perspective (and avoid the words 'politics'): make |
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>> gentoo-dev for development topics only, and have another list for the |
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>> rest. But, I suspect we'd come back to the same problem on both lists, |
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>> where some people are too keen to talk and deviate too far away from |
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>> technical discussion. |
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> On IRC, when a conversation wanders offtopic, one of the ops just nudges |
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> the participants and says "hey, you should move your conversation to |
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> #gentoo-foo" (or "##foo" or whatever). Wouldn't it be easy enough for |
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> someone to do that here? It'd be pretty easy to specify what's on- and |
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> off-topic for each list, and it would be friendlier than moderation, |
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> just like it's friendlier for IRC ops to ask you nicely to switch |
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> channels than to simply kick you out. |
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That's what I'm hoping/praying/fingering-the-rosary will happen when |
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-project gets off the ground (and we now have a declaration of intent |
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from infra, and still no direct opposition to /just/ adding the list, |
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that I've seen). |
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The frustration I've had and I expect others have had as well, is that |
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currently there's no really appropriate place to push folks to. When |
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project gets up and running, that'll change, and I'm REALLY hoping |
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there'll be overwhelming buy-in from everyone into /doing/ that nudging. |
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I know I'd not have an objection if told a post of mine belonged there, |
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particularly if it was obvious anyone else, devs or not, would get the |
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same treatment for a similar post. Just now, there's nowhere to go, so |
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I'd consider an objection legitimate -- and have in fact made a couple |
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such objections in the past. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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