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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:51:23AM -0500, Jason Huebel wrote: |
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> So here's my proposal: mob rule. :-) If someone is truely out of line, I say |
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> we let the devs take their objections to private email to let the offending |
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> party know that their attitude is not acceptable. |
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Which is exactly what does not work - e.g. people replying back to |
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the ML even though a mail was sent in private. Most people would |
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consider this a breach of etiquette and even if they complain to the |
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guy who did it he still may continue not to care. |
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> But in ML's, we remain |
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> polite (maybe "civil" is a better word) and discuss the issue at hand-- even |
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> if the discussion is heated. I'm sure everyone agrees that public lists are |
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> not the place for personal attacks. Considering that this has always been |
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> the consensus, we should all be able to excerise some restraint and take |
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> personal issues to private email. |
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> Basically, my point is that Gentoo problems belong on Gentoo ML's. But |
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> personal conflicts don't. If a dev doesn't follow that common sense approach, |
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> then mob rule will prevail. ;-) |
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Maybe i don't quite understand what you mean with mob rule, what |
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exactly would it do (e.g. in the example i mentioned above)? |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org |
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