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070314 Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Why does this have to be rushed so quickly? |
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> Just to "fight" the bad PR caused by the distrowatch article? |
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As a user for 3.5 years & an observer who has read this thread, |
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but started deleting the original abusive thread as soon as it got going, |
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I'ld say Council has handled the matter correctly |
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& that there's no need for further action on this occasion. |
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The incident involved two men, one of whom was not a dev at all, |
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the other very recently returned as a dev after a long absence |
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& apparently had no notion of the major changes which have happened meanwhile |
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(I am aware of his original role in Gentoo & of his abortive job at Microsoft). |
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Except for basically telling both of them to stop their fight, |
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no-one among the regular hard-working Gentoo devs was involved in it. |
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The prodigal has left again, presumably for good, |
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& everyone else can carry on as they were before his re-appearance. |
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The matter was correctly summed up in 2 lines in last week's GWN |
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& 5 words in LWN (I don't subscribe, so haven't read the full report). |
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As for Distrowatch, I was shocked at its ignorance & ranting hostility: |
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whoever wrote it has a personal axe of some sort to grind |
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& was setting out to try to make a lot more of the incident that it deserved |
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(he started by saying CM is a Gentoo dev, which he is not). |
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No-one should be influenced by it, except as a black mark against Distrowatch. |
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Council does need to be firm in dealing with the occasional disruptive person, |
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but in the two recent cases it has been firm enough without being brutal. |
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Its members deserve thanks & support. |
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It's time everyone returned to what they were doing a month ago. |
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BTW proctors are the 2 ancient officials at Oxford U whose responsibility |
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is to keep order among the student population: they are Senior & Junior |
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and are elected (OU is a democracy, like Gentoo) from among the faculty. |
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They were usually to be seen only on Guy Fawkes night when I was there 1960-71 |
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(any Gentooer with more recent knowledge can update this). |
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