Jonathan- Please take a step back and try to post concise messages in the future. This email itself veers into wall of text territory itself and quickly goes off-topic.
Efraim, on behalf of the maintainers. On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 12:47:27AM +0000, indieterminacy wrote: > Hello Gabriel, > > On 2026-07-30 18:39, Gabriel Wicki wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > Please feel cordially invited to join the discussion to our much-needed > > contribution guidelines on Codeberg¹ > > > > Have a splendid time! > > gabriel / gabber > > > > ¹ https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/10262 > > Having read through the Codeberg issue page, I had to do a double take. > > Are you the same person who wrote about 'WALLS OF TEXTS' from others > concerning others' disagreement on GCD008?: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-07/msg00273.html > > Flooding Guix's supporting documentation with manipulative language which > appear to be generated with (or at least linguistically conforming to) > tooling which has perturbed a wide range of people recently is uncool. > > A more sensitive person would have waited a little before scratching such an > itch, you really should have recused yourself. > If it is your own thumbing your nose at GDC009, it lacks finesse as satire. > > Ive already raised concerns in a GDC008 thread over asymmetries and > externalities from mass generation of texts harming and distracting coders > focus (which the language within the recent issue is to me an artifact). > While I felt that about active Guix contributors focus, the same goes > towards technical people wanting to contribute. > > As such, given your own critique on 'our' words (WALLS OF TEXTS), I will > rebut the current zeitgeist form of pseudo matey conversational tone with > this quote: > > 'There is a word in Newspeak,' said Syme, 'I don't know whether you know > > it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. > > It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory > > meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you > > agree with, it is praise.' > > https://george-orwell.org/1984/4.html > > > More practically concerning guidelines, we should not become pseuds through > infantalising our communications style - its hugely offputting and would > disadvantage Guix: > https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/feb/20/stephen-collins-on-craft-beer-cartoon > > If we want to widen the pool then improved information and examples would be > more apt - as well as the hard slog of outreach. > > > Jonathan > > fwiw, given Maxim recently was down on satire as a tool: its worth > mentioning that 1984 in many respects is a satire on the BBC as an > institution for conformity (Orwell had a low opinion of it from experiences) > -- Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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