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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: James Laslavic <squarebottle@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Daniel Robbins Controversy Unfairly Reported in GMN
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:05:17
Message-Id: 47945239.9070109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-nfp] Daniel Robbins Controversy Unfairly Reported in GMN by James Laslavic
1 James Laslavic wrote:
2 > Was anybody else a bit disappointed to see that when the issue came up
3 > in the new GMN, it only linked to the posts of developers who were
4 > against the proposal? There was no attempt made at all to represent the
5 > other side.
6
7 I'm a bit disappointed that you hijacked a thread and post something
8 quite off topic to this mailing list.
9
10 > There has yet to be any polling to indicate what percentage of
11 > affiliated, official developers oppose the proposal. As far as the
12 > general community goes, it's no secret that most people support Daniel's
13 > proposal (the poll in the forums showed more than 90% support).
14
15 Yet to be determined.
16
17 > There wasn't even a hint that most people have declared their support
18 > for Daniel's proposal. We heard plenty from one side, and we heard
19 > nothing from people on the other side.
20
21 Which side?
22
23 > Whether or not this incontrovertible lapse in journalistic integrity was
24 > intentional, it's still quite upsetting to me. Part of what's been
25 > making so many people in the community upset has been the way that the
26 > people on the inside haven't really been communicating with them, and
27 > while I'm happy to see the return of a general newsletter to begin to
28 > fix all that, this kind of one-sided reporting isn't exactly what I was
29 > hoping for, to say the least.
30
31 Thank you for reading our worthless ramblings...
32
33 I'm quite upset since me and many other developers are available for
34 inquiry ANYTIME and in fact we try to reply in the most gentle way to
35 every inquiry. We are anything but distant if you spend really want to
36 contact us.
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38 lu
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42 Luca Barbato
43 Gentoo Council Member
44 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
45 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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