On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:54:00PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 14:10 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > (Provided that said action does not cause unwanted side effects, like > > the documentation being out of date, because upstream forgot to > > regenerate them before distribution - but that falls under the "upstream > > to not be a moron" above ;) > I see this was some sort of joke, but did you have to call a volunteer > that made a mistake a moron? Did you have to repeat that negative label > twice? Do you have to make a fuss on a public mailing list every time you don't like the tone someone uses? I find getting mired in meta discussions about people's word choice much more damaging to the climate of our mailing lists than the occasional rude remark. </deliberate_irony> And I don't think there was anything inappropriate about Gergely's message, either. Referring to a *hypothetical* upstream as a moron is whimsical, not offensive. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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