On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 16:16 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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 the documentation being out of date, because upstream forgot to 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. Perhaps I was being too sensitive there. Sorry for soiling this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307233699.15003.13.camel@debian
