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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:04:25 +0000 Steve Long |
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<slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > Underlying the draft code of conduct is an assumption that |
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> > aggressive and less-than-nice behavior on gentoo-dev is seriously |
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> > harming Gentoo. |
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> Well you've recently lost two very capable devs as a result of it, |
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> and I understand others have left for similar reasons, so i'd say it |
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> is seriously harming Gentoo. Quite apart from the reputational damage. |
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You need to distinguish between why a developer left and why he said he |
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left. |
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> Personally I understand why flameeyes took that to bugzilla; how else |
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> could he say he'd gone thru the appropriate channels? Devrel (a |
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> group, not an individual) weren't set up to respond quickly as others |
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> have informed us all. |
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Case in point: you need to distinguish between flameeyes leaving (again) |
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as a publicity stunt because his attempt to blackmail devrel failed and |
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flameeyes' stated reason for leaving... |
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> No one's been complaining about the user forums, apart from ciaran |
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> afaict |
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Oh, I assure you I'm not the only person to have serious issues with |
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the forums. A number of Gentoo developers and former Gentoo developers |
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have expressed similar views to mine on the subject... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |
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