Hi, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > Practically, it's more important to maintain good relations with Lennart > Poettering than with Bill Gates.
fwiw I don't think Lennart Poettering personally would care very much. He has a thick skin and has more than once poked fun at people for poking fun at him. I agree with other people in this thread that there really is no ethical (or technical) difference between xbill and xlennart. Which is why I was mildly shocked to learn that debain has xbill in it's archives. I never seen it before to today, but I find it wildly inappropriate to attack persons in that manner. The fact that Lennart has publicly criticized the open source community for such ad hominem attacks [1] only exacerbates things -- one would *think* that the open source community take this post as an opportunity to prove him wrong. I know that CoC-incantations are frowned upon, but I hope that this goes at least against the spirit of having a CoC (even if maybe -- haven't checked in detail -- not the wording). Which should be to treat people openly and with respect. I don't think Lennart personally would care, no, but I think *we* should care to paint the Opensource community as better than this. From that point of view, if there was a vote and I'd get a vote I would also vote against having xbill in the archive as being a poor taste ad-hominem attack (I mean, for crying out loud, there is an actualy blood-spatter squashing animation in the game, even if it is a poor one). In my opinion it is certainly not an argument to also let xlennart in. [1] https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13rdjryqyn1xlt3522sxpugoz3gujbhh04 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87zj9i1nw2.fsf@rincewind.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
