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On 23:35 Fri 19 Jun , Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Donnie Berkholz<dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 12:06 Wed 17 Jun , Thomas Anderson wrote: |
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> >> The ban was later reversed by Doug Goldstein(Cardoe) because it had |
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> >> not been put to a council vote as all bans in #-council are. |
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> > Since when? I've never heard of this. I've banned people in there with a |
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> > note to other council members (for the simple sake of good |
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> > communication) and no vote ever happened except by lack of objection. |
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> In the past you've e-mailed all of us and told us about the situation |
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> and the rest of us agreed with your action. In this case, there was no |
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> e-mail and more then half of the council members didn't see |
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> justification for the ban based on the conversation at hand. While |
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> some of the comments at hand were snide, a lot of the confusion was as |
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> a result of the language barrier. I know the language barrier has |
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> caused a problem for some of us one time or another. In fact, dev-zero |
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> and I have had our share of disagreements as a result of the language |
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> barrier. At the same time, dev-zero and I have worked together on |
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> quite a few projects and had positive experiences together. We decided |
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> in the meeting to let emotions cool and toss it to e-mail. If anyone |
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> wanted to see igli banned, to send an e-mail to all the council |
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> members (it didn't even have to be on the ML) and we'd go from there. |
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> To date, no such e-mail has come. The only e-mails are just throwing |
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> fuel on a fire which no longer exists. |
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Thanks for the clarification. My problem is just with the wording in the |
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summary, then, as it implies that banning can't happen until *after* a |
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vote. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |