On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Hello =) > > Sometimes technical Debian discussions (mailing lists, bug reports, > blog posts, etc.) become personal flame-wars. Indeed. > Do you think current frequency/amount of heated discussions is > acceptable for the Debian project? I believe no amount of ad-hominem discussion is acceptable. I do believe heated arguments are acceptable, but it should not go personal; i.e., the difference between "this is a silly argument, because <reasoning>" and "don't be silly". > What would you do to reduce those? I go into that in quite some detail in my platform. To summarize: I encourage people to (politely) challenge people on what should be unacceptable behaviour but (in our community) isn't, yet, and will do so myself. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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