On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:59:35 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> said:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 21:22 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> > > Any maintainer doing such a braindead stupid thing - do not
>> > > wonder if I reject your package without any comment in the
>> > > future. The maintainer address has to be open to receive
>> > > mail. It is fucking annyoing already that the damn "Your post
>> > > needs a moderator" messages get back, rejecting legal mail is
>> > > even worse.
Note that the rejection is being called stupid -- not the
person who created the mechanisms that caused the rejection.
>> For my part, I find it pretty offensive that a mailing list that's
>> set as the maintainer of a package would have mail filters
>> configured this way in the first place.
> It's your right to have such an opinion, but it's not the question
> at hand. The point I raised is: is it appropriate to assume that a
> fellow maintainer is "braindead" or "stupid", or rather assume that
> he made an honest mistake?
Are you saying stupid people can't make honest mistakes? I
would think that these are not mutually exclusive characterizations.
As for determining intelligence of an action, I would much rather
call a spade a spade. It is not as if he called the people stupid
(thing, not person) -- that is merely your hyperbole and strawman.
> Is it appropriate to use terms like "fucking" and "damn" on a wide
> audience mailinglist, or could you send them a polite message if you
> don't agree with their way of configuring their lists?
It certainly speaks volumes about the author, so I am not
opposed to such terms. It help rather rapidly to locate their niche
in my score files.
> I'm pretty sure which path I'd take, and I'm also pretty sure which
> path would be best to improve the atmosphere between Debian
> developers.
Not moderating the maintainer path would do volumes to improve
relations here as well.
manoj
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