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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:23:23AM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> I have seen this and I strongly disagreed with it then and now. I don't |
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> believe it is *ever* appropriate for devrel to censor devs, whether it be |
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> temporarily or permanently. As long as it is done professionally and |
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> courteously, devs should be able to express themselves freely imo. |
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I absolutely agree. I very much don't want devrel to be in the thought |
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police business. |
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> > I'm sure devrel aren't actively out to set themselves up as the new |
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> > spanish inquisition. However, it seems I'm not the only one that's |
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> > noticed them moving from a "helping developers" role to "policing |
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> > developers" instead, and I'd like to know what devrel's stance on this |
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> > is. |
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> Honestly, it's not devrel's place to decide what their role in the project |
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> is. That responsibility belongs to the developers themselves. If folks |
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> believe devrel is overstepping their bounds, then let's discuss it and work |
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> at re-defining those bounds. After reading the etiquette section of the |
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> handbook this morning, I certainly felt like devrel (of which I am a |
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> member) had gone a bit far. |
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I also agree here. I have been MIA the past week and am just now getting |
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caught back up, but everybody please make sure to be noisy about it when |
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you feel something is inappropriate - just don't be a jerk about it :) |
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Jon Portnoy |
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