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On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 14:06 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:38 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 08:03 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:33:09 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > > On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 19:20 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:43:05 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > > > > On Sun, 2019-06-16 at 23:00 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > > > > > > Only active Gentoo developers who are also Foundation |
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> > > > > > > members may be |
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> > > > > > > nominated. [1] |
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> > > > > > > |
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> > > > > > > Nominations MUST be made by posting to |
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> > > > > > > gentoo-nfp@l.g.o, and |
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> > > > > > > the nominated candidate must accept not later than the |
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> > > > > > > end of the |
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> > > > > > > nomination period. |
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> > > > > > |
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> > > > > > Ok, let's try someone else. I nominate: |
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> > > > > > |
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> > > > > > David Seifert (soap) |
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> > > > > > Mikle Kolyada (zlogene) |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > You violated the rules: |
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> > > > > Nominations MUST be made by posting to |
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> > > > > gentoo-nfp@l.g.o |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > But you sent them to gentoo-project@l.g.o mail |
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> > > > > list. |
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> > > > > Hereby they are not valid. Please perform your duty properly |
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> > > > > and |
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> > > > > send nominations to the aforementioned NFP mail list. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > You could also have understood it was a honest mistake and be |
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> > > > nice about |
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> > > > it. But I suppose that's too much to expect from a ComRel |
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> > > > member. |
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> > > |
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> > > I politely pointed out your mistake and nicely asked you to fix |
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> > > it. |
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> > > I even used the word "please". I honestly don't see what was not |
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> > > nice about my previous e-mail. Maybe we have a language barrier |
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> > > issue here. |
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> > > |
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> > > My comrel membership has nothing to do with this discussion and |
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> > > I'm participating in it as a common Gentoo developer with my |
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> > > comrel |
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> > > hat off. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > Do you really believe that a ComRel member (read: a person whose |
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> > duty |
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> > involves judging other people's behavior) can just take ComRel hat |
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> > off |
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> > and stop caring about providing exemplary behavior? Following that |
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> > logic, I could join ComRel claiming that all the things I've said |
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> > and done were 'with my comrel hat off' (since I don't have any)! |
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> > |
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> > I understand that there might be a language barrier. However, |
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> > since you |
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> > decide to perform a very specific and important role, I'm afraid |
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> > you |
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> > need to learn to use English in a way that's actually polite rather |
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> > than |
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> > using the excuse of a language barrier. |
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> > |
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> > Let me explain. |
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> > |
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> > A neutral (i.e. not really polite but acceptable) way of saying |
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> > that |
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> > would be to say 'you have posted the nominations to the wrong |
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> > list'. |
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> > That's plain and factual. |
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> > |
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> > You said 'you violated the rules' which is an |
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> > accusation. Accusations |
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> > tend to render one as guilty of doing something very |
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> > bad. Accusations |
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> > are not polite. |
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> > |
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> > Furthermore, 'perform your duty properly' is passive |
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> > aggressive. Adding |
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> > 'please' doesn't make it any more polite -- in fact, given just |
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> > before |
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> > a insulting statement it may have the exact opposite effect. |
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> > |
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> > The polite way of saying that would be to strip the first part |
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> > of the sentence and just say 'please send nominations ...' In |
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> > fact, |
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> > as you can see the passive aggressive part is completely |
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> > unnecessary to |
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> > convey the meaning, so what's the purpose of adding it besides |
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> > intentionally offending someone? |
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> As a native English speaker I agree with Michał's assessment. |
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so do I. |