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On 06/19/2010 01:06 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> On 19-06-2010 16:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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>> #gentoo-infra is a channel on infra matters. |
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>> The fact that it's developers only doesn't make it a private channel in |
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>> a sense of "tone doesn't matter". |
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> you've failed to notice an important point that others have already |
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> tried to convey to you - #gentoo-infra is the home of the Gentoo infra |
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> team. Yes, developers go there to address infra issues on Gentoo, but it |
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> is the infra team channel and not the channel of every Gentoo developer. |
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Perhaps he didn't fail to notice this point, but rather he just |
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disagrees with it? |
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The fact is that #gentoo-infra is part of the Gentoo linux distribution. |
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It belongs to every Gentoo developer, or at least legally to every |
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Gentoo foundation member. Conduct on this channel reflects on all |
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Gentoo developers. |
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It really does bother me that everybody is lining up to defend this kind |
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of behavior. If the response had been - sorry, I guess the joking got |
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out of hand I'd say, ok, well, let's try to do better but let's all move |
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on. I don't see offensive behavior using Gentoo IDs/IRC Cloaks/media as |
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a trivial matter. It sets the overall tone of the distro, which is what |
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this thread is all about. |
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I've heard several devs over the years comment that they love |
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contributing to Gentoo, but they'd never put it on their resume. Who |
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can blame them? I know that if I ever were hiring somebody and they |
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pointed out that they were a Gentoo dev, I'd tend to assume that their |
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technical knowledge was pretty good but you can be assured I'd do quite |
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a bit of digging around to figure out if they're somebody I'd want |
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working on my team. |
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Unless somebody is so good that you'd be fine if they were the only |
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person working for you, then they're not too good to pass over. Rest |
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assured that if you hire and keep certain people, sooner or later they |
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WILL be the only ones working for you... |
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I don't think that most Gentoo devs behave in this way. I think a lot |
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of people care about trying to fix this. I don't think it is asking too |
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much for Gentoo devs to try to keep their behavior reasonably |
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professional when using Gentoo media, or Gentoo emails/cloaks/etc. |
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No need to start burning people at the stake for slip-ups, but let's at |
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least try to agree that we'd like to be associated with a somewhat |
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professional-acting distribution? |
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Rich |