Nick,
well, I found this particular figure of speech ("the people...") quite
disturbing;
perhaps cause it reminded me of Soviet Union, where I grew up, or
perhaps because it is (over)used by American politicians...
It just could be that Dave snapped for a similar reason (although I
cannot read his mind).I would be perfectly fine with "in my capacity of moderator of sage- devel" (which would be more to the point, anyway), or something like this. OK, enough of this mix of linguistics and politics :) Dima On Mar 18, 1:56 pm, Nick Alexander <ncalexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17-Mar-10, at 10:41 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > William, > > While I think that posts here on a particular part of functionality > > (e.g. Solaris port) *continuing to work after an > > update* should not happen here, only posts on particular parts of > > functionality *ceasing to work* should be welcome (Dave, please take > > the note), > > (while such posts would still be appropriate on a list that > > specifically concerns the particular part of functionality (e.g. > > sage- > > solaris)), > > since when do you talk for "the people on sage-devel"? > > Since more or less the beginning of the project. We have a long > history of having William speak for the collective; I'm not saying > this is a perfect arrangement, but we have functioned this way for a > long time, and it has been reasonably successful. (In this case, I > was privy to some of the discussion, being part of JSAGE, the slightly > more formal Sage board.) > > > Please take down that date - the date of the beginning of the demise > > of Sage project, as we know it... :-) > > No, seriously - OK, you are moderating sage-devel; you are concerned > > about too much traffic > > going on here on a particular issue. But this does not mean you need > > to act and sound dictatorially, at least not > > in this particular case. > > Whereas, IMHO, creation of sage-solaris and in particular the tone of > > the ensuing discussion here falls under the latter pattern. > > I disagree -- but then again, I was one of the earliest to complain > about what I perceive to be a waste of my sage-devel bandwidth, so > maybe we were bound to disagree :) > > Nick -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
