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From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:15:51
Message-Id: 4C1CED28.5020606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo by Jeremy Olexa
1 Jeremy,
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4 On 06/19/10 06:45, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
5 > On 06/18/2010 09:25 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
6 >
7 >> In #gentoo-infra <snip>
8 >
9 > #gentoo-infra is a private channel and you don't have to be in there. No
10 > public community members/users are in there. The "tone" can be anything
11 > that is acceptable to the normal inhabitants of said channel.
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13 #gentoo-infra is a channel on infra matters.
14 The fact that it's developers only doesn't make it a private channel in
15 a sense of "tone doesn't matter".
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18 > I *strongly* feel that
19 > instead of threads like this, people can, and should be, leading by
20 > example and recruiting people that show similar feelings.
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22 Leading by example doesn't work with tone. Being the politest one in
23 group of people insulting each other will not make them change tone.
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26 > As Patrick
27 > said[2], back to bug fixing and using time wisely.
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29 Fixing bugs addresses the technical layer.
30 Again, technical is not our problem: non-technical is.
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32 Best,
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36 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>