On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:40:44AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:47:13PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > However, as one of my initial actions as DPL, I do intend to submit a > > > post to debian-devel-announce with a set of guidelines for people to > > > follow when flamewars happen (and when they don't, in order to avoid > > > them). > > Why is sending such a mail conditional on you being elected DPL? > > How would the content of this mail differ from such a mail if you sent it as > > non-DPL, and why? > "Hi, I'm J. Random Developer, and I encourage all of you to abide by > these rules" > vs > "Hi, I'm the DPL, and I encourage all of you to abide by these rules" > I don't think the former would work very well; but I believe the latter > could. I don't think either would work very well. I could be mistaken, but I think that would be unfortunate, because that would only reinforce the idea of doing what the DPL says because he's the DPL instead of because he's made a persuasive case. So the only change you would make to the content when sending such a message as DPL vs. a normal developer would be "Hi, I'm the DPL"? -- 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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