Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 03:11:54PM -0400, Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez <muammarelkhatib@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote:
> >Jens Peter Secher wrote:
> >> Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> if you insist on keeping the useless stuff, i consider the package as to
> >>> ugly according to my mesures of beauty, and hence i'm not sponsoring it.
> >>
> >> I think it would be better if you toned down this
> >> do-as-I-say-or-I-wont-sponsor-you attitude. As others have mentioned,
> >> some of the nitpicking is really your personal preferences, and not
> >> really something that makes a new Developer much better at the tasks
> >> involved in maintaining a package.
> >>
> >> Anyways, as new Developers get more comfortable with the debhelper
> >> parts, the superfluous comments seem to vanish. That is my experience.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >
> >If I may give my view of sponsored...
> >
> >Daniel has been a very good sponsor with me so far, he helped me a lot
> >to understand many things, he was fast, and was patient enough with my
> >mistakes. He don't put lot's of emotions on his messages, he just write
> >what he thinks is good, without any bla bla.
> >
>
> I agree. Daniel is a perfectionist and reliable person.
Too bad he doesn't apply his sponsoring standards on his own packages.
Mike
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