On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 1 April 2010 19:23, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I don't want to point fingers in any one direction, [...] but I would >> really like it if the volatile mix of paludis/pkgcore developers would >> not explode all over the mailing list. Please don't let the discussions >> get personal. > > But you _should_ point fingers. The only way to make sure we have > civil discussions is to point out bad behavior and let people know > we don't tolerate that. And when such behavior is displayed > repeatedly, we should exclude such people from taking part in > our discussions. We don't need poisonous people, so let's > get rid of them. >
I didn't personally point fingers in this case because me doing so in that discussion would not have been taken as a neutral party stance. Besides both sides were being childish; and sending one mail is easier than 2-3 ;p Neutral parties are constantly encouraged to put a stop to anti-social behaviour by polite means (and escalate when necessary). We don't like to see bytes being wasted on unproductive discussions, but we don't want a witch-hunt either :) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
