Le dimanche 05 mars 2006 à 17:19 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > 2. Everyone has his own character. However, a representative has to > > be cautious to avoid compromising the project as a whole. Were > > you elected, would you make efforts to stop being contemptuous > > in public communication, at least when acting as DPL? > > When acting as DPL, certainly -- and I would hope the issue wouldn't > come up in the first place. If you've got any examples of any of > my communications signed of as "release manager" that you think are > contemptuous I'd be interested in discussing them with you, to make sure > I can avoid anything similar. I didn't use to interact much with you when you were release manager, but I remember sharing a general feeling of being treated as a second-class citizen with some other developers. Contempt can't only show up in the language, but also in the decisions themselves. As time has passed, I'm afraid I can't come up with real examples, but the feeling of a huge improvement when Steve took the job remains. Looking at your mails to d-d-a, you seem to have improved in communicating, but people like him also know how to listen to others - a very rare quality I'd like to see in the DPL. > As far as "contemptuous" is concerned, I don't really think singling > me out like that is particularly fair. Our current DPL posted "Frank > Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die" to d-d-a about six months > before being elected, eg; and plenty of other people in the project act > similarly. Personally, I do rate getting things done more important than > being nice about it -- and I shouldn't think you'll find it hard to find > examples where I'm not nice -- but it really does frustrate me when we > can't have both. Many developers can be rude and frank in their criticism, and the current DPL's past behavior is a perfect example. However this isn't necessarily correlated with contempt. Getting things done is one thing, and being rude is sometimes a way to get things done, but ignoring other developers' opinion in a decision process is another one. > [snip] Above all, I appreciate that you have answered honestly to these questions. It proves that you are perfectly capable of being polite and open when you want to. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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