On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:18:00 +1200 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:47:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:14:13 +1200 > > Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:39:26PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > On 7/23/14, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I suppose I'll get complaints about this being off-topic, but > > > > > perhaps we can expose a disagreement on terminology without > > > > > the clutter and heat of the discussion in which it came up. > > > > > > > > Not offtopic at all, since some (heated, or protracted) > > > > discussions, drag out due to the lack of shared terminology/ > > > > shared understanding of concepts being discussed. > > > > > > I know you are just stiring but it *is* off-topic according to the > > > list charter. > > > > Where does one see the list charter? Neither googling > > "debian-user"+"mailing list"+charter nore "debian-user"+"mailing > > list"+rules nor a search on the debian.org site itself nor just > > general searching came up with it within the top 20 results. > > Oh. Ok, but I was using the same terms that Henrique de Moraes > Holschuh used when he talked about the debian-testing mailing list > and how people were wondering if that was the list to discuss testing > issues from a user perspective. > > But the debian-user list is for Debian support, and discussing the > issues of scripting versus configuration is therefore off-topic, IMHO. > > Maybe the CoC implicitly defines the list charter. In other words... In other words, I've just gone back to being 11 years old, when, at Boy Scout camp, I was sent out into the woods on a "snipe hunt", or sent to ask the other troop for a "left handed smoke bender". :-) Good one Chris! :-) SteveT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140723183230.40011bdd@mylap4
