Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling downloads from sourceforge in an ebuild

[Josh Glover]

Quoth Jason Rhinelander:

> Guys, as a user, let me tell you that these sort of bickering, snappy
> comments in public - especially from devs - really have a detrimental
> effect on the opinions of users towards devs as a whole, even if it's
> just a few.

[...]

> Next time a dev wants to call someone a tool may I suggest the comment
> not be sent to the list?

I could not agree more! I am a new Gentoo dev (but have been an Open Source
dev and member of some highly technical mailing lists for years) and have been
quite surprised at some of the stuff I have seen here on -dev.

I think that, as a group of volunteers (as Grant Goodyear just eloquently
noted), we have *a lot* to lose if we cannot keep the flaming down. Gentoo is
quite an achievement, and we should all be proud of it (especially those of
you who have, quite unlike me, actually contributed ;). Flamewars on public
lists like -dev or even in the Forums can make the whole lot of us look like
socially retarded "nerds", an image that the media loves but I hate.

Please, I get enough petty politics from my day job. Let's try to be patient
and decent here on -dev.

As a final note on the subject of netiquette, I would like to point out that
it is polite to read *all* of a thread before posting an answer--this helps
avoid duplicate posts of the sort we just saw on the "Handling downloads from
sourceforge in an ebuild" thread.

This document is a very good read on basic netiquette:

http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

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Josh Glover

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