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Ciaran, |
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On 06/19/10 21:16, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> No, that's the nice thing about delivering a product based upon |
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> technical merit: most of the time, there are right answers and there |
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> are wrong answers, and careful investigation and good management can |
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> lead to it being determined which is which. |
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I think you neglect differences in values. |
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Say the degree of backwards-compatibility: there's no wrong nor right |
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without values. Both sides have pros and cons. |
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> Collaboration works when good ideas get kept and bad ideas get dropped. |
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> Collaboration fails when good ideas are rejected because people don't |
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> like who came up with them |
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If you had better tone it would be much easier to accept the good among |
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your ideas. |
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> or the tone in which they were presented, or |
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> when bad ideas are kept around to avoid hurting the feelings of the |
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> people who came up with those ideas. |
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Saying "no" politely is hard, not impossible. |
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>>> Personally, I'd like to see Gentoo start having the kinds of people |
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>>> who deliver a better product, not the kinds of people who worry |
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>>> that using a gender-ambiguous cow as a logo might be offensive. |
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>> I don't consider that comment respectful. |
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> But do you consider it to be correct? |
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No, I don't. I have said "technical is not our main problem" many times. |
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Best, |
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Sebastian |
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