On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:59:51PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > The article linked to the mail message, which baffled me. More than > anything, isn't the message simply off topic? I don't know, maybe I > live in a fantasy land, but given the response on other technical > lists to off topic messages, I simply can't fathom why a developer > would post a message like that.
He apologized for that later on. > Mostly, I feel sorry for the guy who posted this joke, because I don't > think it was meant to be offensive -- it seems more likely to me that > the developer is perhaps a little socially inept and misguaged his > audience. Of course, something can be offensive even when the author > has no such intent. Hear, hear. > If anything, I think it's a poorly done joke, and a waste of time on > -devel. The message was sent to -devel-announce, not -devel. > But I don't know if the message needs to be taken in context > with many other messages. It was a more or less direct parody at the previous message, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00004.html I think most people believe that the sender of the message disapproved with the previous message being on -devel-announce (a list only meant for important announcements), and tried some parody on it. > Maybe this one message is weird and not so great, but taken in the > context of other messages I don't know about, the whole of it comes > across as unwelcoming? The problem is that -devel-announce is far more widely read and noticed than -devel (and only Debian Developers can send messages or sponsor message to be sent there), so inappropriate and off-topic messages on there are much more of a problem to the outside appearance Debian than inappropriate messages on -devel. Inappropriate messages on -devel are a big problem for the internal working of Debian, though. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
