Hello Pierre-Elliott,
On Tue Feb 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM GMT, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
Calling tarball-shipping a fetish is irrelevant, petty and insulting.
With my message I REALLY don't wish to fan the flames. But I would like
to better understand the specifics of your objection, because it
surprised me.
None of us are above writing bad mails, not least Ian (sorry Ian), nor
me. But I didn't find that particular message to be bad, and I would
like to understand what was wrong with it.
Is it perhaps specifically the term "fetish"? If so, I think this could
potentially be a i18n issue. That turn of phrase is quite common in
en_GB, such that it has been somewhat "defanged" in common use, but I
could understand if it had not been defanged out of our little bubble.
If Ian had written substantially the same mail, but used e.g. "tarball
obsession", would that have been offensive? (I'm assuming here that
"obsession" has been defanged more internationally. One could make a
reasonable argument that it shouldn't be)
Or, is the problem in your eyes more fundamentally that Ian reiterates
his opinion that caring about tarballs is wrong?
Thank you,
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