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On Thursday 18 May 2006 4:05 pm, Mike Doty wrote: |
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> forwarding at Peters request... |
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I wanted to let this discussion run its course and ignore it, but I can't help |
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but say that I really appreciate the sentiment of Peter. It's thoughtful and |
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fair. |
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When it comes down to it, you can't blame any one side for an erupting |
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flamewar. There's the instigator, of course. But then there are the suckers |
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who take the bait. :-) It's a "chicken or the egg" paradox. |
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Previously, I would have said that creating a etiquette |
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council/moderator/group for ML's was a great idea. It's the whole |
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benevolent-dictator mentality, which works in smaller groups like an arch |
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team (and for Linus, of course). But to be quite honest, it would never work |
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in a group as large and diverse as the Gentoo community. |
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So here's my proposal: mob rule. :-) If someone is truely out of line, I say |
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we let the devs take their objections to private email to let the offending |
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party know that their attitude is not acceptable. But in ML's, we remain |
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polite (maybe "civil" is a better word) and discuss the issue at hand-- even |
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if the discussion is heated. I'm sure everyone agrees that public lists are |
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not the place for personal attacks. Considering that this has always been |
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the consensus, we should all be able to excerise some restraint and take |
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personal issues to private email. |
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Basically, my point is that Gentoo problems belong on Gentoo ML's. But |
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personal conflicts don't. If a dev doesn't follow that common sense approach, |
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then mob rule will prevail. ;-) |
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Jason Huebel |
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Gentoo Developer |
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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." |
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Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) |