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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 1 April 2010 19:23, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I don't want to point fingers in any one direction, [...] but I would |
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>> really like it if the volatile mix of paludis/pkgcore developers would |
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>> not explode all over the mailing list. Please don't let the discussions |
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>> get personal. |
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> But you _should_ point fingers. The only way to make sure we have |
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> civil discussions is to point out bad behavior and let people know |
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> we don't tolerate that. And when such behavior is displayed |
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> repeatedly, we should exclude such people from taking part in |
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> our discussions. We don't need poisonous people, so let's |
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> get rid of them. |
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I didn't personally point fingers in this case because me doing so in |
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that discussion would not have been taken as a neutral party stance. |
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Besides both sides were being childish; and sending one mail is easier |
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than 2-3 ;p |
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Neutral parties are constantly encouraged to put a stop to anti-social |
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behaviour by polite means (and escalate when necessary). We don't like |
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to see bytes being wasted on unproductive discussions, but we don't |
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want a witch-hunt either :) |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |