Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:24 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> Why is it a such a problem to be clear? The council is proposing changes
> that affect us all, giving us two days to discuss it, and then a council
> member is shouting at someone when he says he thinks the CoC is unclear?

I am shouting at no one.  At no point have I done anything to indicate
any sort of anger.

> Finally, I'm struggling to see the respect in your replies to a
> jaervosz, something the new CoC the council are about to order us to
> follow suggests is an integral part of acceptable behaviour when
> disagreeing with or challenging someone.

If you're failing to see the "respect" in my replies I get the feeling
that you're reading much more into my replies than the simple text that
is laid out in my emails.  I'm not going to respond to this thread
anymore, since I'm apparently being disrespectful by attempting to
provide answers to the questions given.

Here's my opinion, and this doesn't reflect the thoughts of the Council,
at all.  Sure, you can say that it reflects the thoughts of one Council
member, but not the whole.  I'm sick of this.  Writing is not like code.
Writing is interpreted.  There isn't a right and wrong in writing.  You
don't have to always be exact and specific.  You don't have to be
pedantic and list out every single detail to every single point.  You
also don't have to pick apart every single word that every single person
says on every single post.  This sort of attitude of trying to point out
everyone else's flaws is part of the reason we have such a culture of
mistrust and hostility within Gentoo.  If you'd read something into my
posts on this matter other than what is simply stated, you've done my
writing a disservice and have tried to place an interpretation where it
was expected that there would be none.  Because of this, I am
determining that I have failed in getting my point across properly, and
rather than wasting any more of everyone's time trying to continually
rectify my shortcomings, will leave the responses for others who are
more eloquent than myself to write.

Have a good day everyone.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation