[gentoo-project] Re: [OT] Questions for Candidates (was: Questioning/Interviewing council nominees)

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:08:41 +0200
hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:

> Well, thanks for all that nonsense, derailing and offtopic crap.

Not sure what part of that thread this is referring to; because you have
accepted a lot of possible topics by asking to "pose a question with
context to the current council election", which scope reaches out to
almost anything Gentoo Developer related in Gentoo Linux.

That open, people will simply discuss what bothers them and want to
see how possibly new Gentoo Council members will deal with that. For
all sub threads; I do not see nonsense, derailing or off-topic crap.

If you instead intended this to be solely Q&A then I think the mailing
lists might not be the right place to do this; sadly it's true, but
sometimes you need the tool you're using to restrict the possible input.

> Neither the mailing list mods, nor userrel seem to think some
> intervention is necessary.

Tried DevRel? Whom invites people to contact them? Nearly all responses
in that thread are from Gentoo Developers, so I don't think UserRel has
anything to do here. I don't see any rules that apply to the ML voided
myself; so, not sure which intervention you are looking for.

As for the ML mods, filtering Council related material makes them biased
so I think they will want to avoid that unless absolutely necessary.

> I was not aware of a gentoo policy that trolls are allowed on our
> mailing lists.

Trolls are defined in the Gentoo CoC, DevRel deals with them.

> I apologize for my ignorance.

No, you need to ignore much more; the average mail client allows you to
ignore sub threads, put that feature to good use and don't be bothered.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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