On Mar 4, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Ben Beuchler wrote: > >> What do others think? Should it be acceptable to privately contact >> members of our community, encouraging them to leave? > > It may be rude, but as long as they're not being threatening or > interfering with the communication flow, it seems it would be silly to > ban them. To do so would seem to be saying that either: > > 1) the community members are too stupid to make their own decisions > and must be protected from the dangerous teachings of the dissidents, > or > 2) the other community is, in fact, superior and you need to block > communications in order to retain your own community.
While I can't disagree with what you're saying, it seems to me that there's something qualitively different between discussions on the list about other projects and using the list as a marketing resource for competing projects, which is essentially what's going on here. I actually have no problem at all with people talking about Chef or Cfengine or Quattor or whatever (including commercial tools like BladeLogic or OpsWare) on the list, and in many ways I encourage it - I think our product and community can and should stand against any of them, and if it starts to fall down there I want to know so I can fix it. It's when people trawl the list looking for conversion targets whom they then contact privately that I start to get a bit put out. > > We're grown ups. If someone is bugging us out-of-band, we can tell > them to go away, block their email, or decide to accompany them to > their fabulous World of Wonder and Excitement. I expect this will be the general consensus. I hate having to behave like an adult, rather than a petulant, jealous 9 year old. :) > > Out of curiosity, which other group is trying to snipe people away? > Chef? Importantly, it's not a group, it's an individual member of the Chef community, AJ/fujin. -- God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. -- Jacques Deval --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
