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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:22:58 -0500 Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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| Nobody on the devrel team is getting their jollies from "policing |
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| developers", and if there wasn't a need for it then you wouldn't see |
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| it. The problem is that some people have acted or said some pretty |
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| offensive things while acting on behalf of Gentoo in the eyes of the |
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| victim. That can't be put up with, and personally I'm not open to be |
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| persuaded otherwise. Whether developers realize it or not, there are |
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| corporations and large organizations watching, and some of them |
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| migrating to Gentoo. As a distribution, we can't tolerate developers |
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| being jerks to other people, especially our users. I know this first |
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| hand, because my place of employment was about to pack up and walk |
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| away from Gentoo altogether after one such altercation between one of |
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| our 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 |
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| involvement and there is no problem. |
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So large corporations depend upon devrel reassigning mentors *without |
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bothering to inform the original mentor*? Uh huh... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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