Re: Mailing lists
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:49:12PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu> writes:
>> >
>> > > My subscription seems to have been accidentally changed from
>> > > debian-devel to debian-nm-buildd-flamewars, is something wrong with
>> > > murphy? :-P
>> >
>> > Just killfile Nathanael Nerode and Goswin von Brederlow and everything
>> > will return to normal.
>>
>> Thats a pretty hostile remark.
>
> Funny, this thread started with claims being made about people who spend
> almost all of their free time to Debian, which should be replaced, as if
> their contributions weren't considered useful.
I'm surprised to hear you saying that. Generally, you express more
subtle point of views: how can you here pretend that the thread started
with a request of trashing the contributions of some DDs while a quick
look into archives shows it was about asking to disallow them, no
matter how much they contribute to Debian, to block other
contributions. Nobody asked to trash their work on buildd but
questioned the power they have on buildd.
Isn't it funny to claim that the way some people act is in no way
questionable because they do contribute, while the whole issue is
about giving to others the possibility to contribute? Don't you see it
is just a vicious circle?
How the hell did you reach the conclusion that doing much means being
always right, never wrong?
So, are you really trying to communicate here? Do you really think
than Nathaniel and others are spending time to write mails just to be
hostile to some DD?
All this discussion about how hostile are Nathaniel and friends, how
bad it is to question DD choices, it just looks like a way to avoid
discussion the real issue raised by Nathaniel and friends: "Re: Debian
needs more buildds. It has offers. They aren't beingaccepted.". It
makes the issue looking even more strange, just like if there was
little nasty secret to hide. Why is it so hard to get an official
statement about why buildd offers aren't being accepted?
So only solution to the problem you can come up with is to ignore the
discussion with a killfile? Looks that there is a real problem out
there.
--
Mathieu Roy
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