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On Monday 19 July 2004 01:20 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> I'm sure devrel aren't actively out to set themselves up as the new |
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> spanish inquisition. However, it seems I'm not the only one that's |
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> noticed them moving from a "helping developers" role to "policing |
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> developers" instead, and I'd like to know what devrel's stance on this |
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> is. Come to think of it, I remember a certain former manager bringing |
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> this exact point up shortly before he left. |
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Nobody on the devrel team is getting their jollies from "policing developers", |
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and if there wasn't a need for it then you wouldn't see it. The problem is |
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that some people have acted or said some pretty offensive things while acting |
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on behalf of Gentoo in the eyes of the victim. That can't be put up with, |
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and personally I'm not open to be persuaded otherwise. Whether developers |
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realize it or not, there are corporations and large organizations watching, |
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and some of them migrating to Gentoo. As a distribution, we can't tolerate |
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developers being jerks to other people, especially our users. I know this |
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first hand, because my place of employment was about to pack up and walk away |
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from Gentoo altogether after one such altercation between one of our |
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employees and a dev. |
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I don't think it is asking too much of people to treat each other |
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appropriately. If that is the case, then you won't see devrel's involvement |
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and there is no problem. |
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Cheers, |
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-Corey |
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Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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