Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.
Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com> writes:
> I agree but we must focus on results. I'm afraid of Debian becoming some
> painfully polite court where people are forever trying to score points
> on one and other by faulting their manners.
I understand the concern about slippery slopes, but that slope isn't even
on the same *planet* we're currently on.
> Keeping things friendly is critical and etiquette can be a very
> effective method of intimidating people. Technical results should be of
> at least equal import to social considerations. After all, we're a
> volunteer OS not a volunteer international vacation club.
Have you seen the Geek Social Fallacies?
<http://sean.chittenden.org/humor/www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html>
I think Fallacy #1 sheds quite a bit of light on this particular situation
and the reactions to it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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