Re: Proposal to delay the decition of the DPL of the withdrawal of the Package Policy Committee delegation
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:17:17AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> >> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:17:05 +0100, Ian Jackson
>> >> >> <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> said:
>> >> >> > Perhaps it would be better if the policy maintainer were someone who
>> >> >> > was more willing to listen and take on board comments ?
>> >> >> This sounds like a canard. What official Board comments have
>> >> >> been disregarded by the current set of policy maintainers? Or do you
>> >> >> mean "Ian wants a Yes Man"?
>> >> > Ian meant "take comments under consideration", not "listen to comments
>> >> > from the technical committee".
>> >> Manoj sometimes gives the impression of not listening [...]
>> > Err, I mean Ian meant "(take on board) (comments)", and Manoj appears to
>> > have misinterpreted that as "(take on) (Board comments)". Nothing more.
>> I'm not familiar with the expression "take on board", but according to
>> dict.leo.org you are still asserting that he does not take into
>> consideration comments by others. I repeat what I wrote:
>
> I'm asserting nothing of the kind. Ian might be, but I'm not.
Sorry, I was confused because you answered as if you could read Ian's
mind, so I must have concluded you were the same person.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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