Hello everybody, The reason why I felt that Thierry's question was legitimate, and the reason why I renewed it repeatedly, is that I do not like to think that anybody here has so much disrespect for our community that they believe possible to write its laws in secret [1] and have them proposed for vote while hiding behind the release manager (whose opinions, because of his status, have more weight for the community). We cannot accept our new legislative system to be closed-source.
Secondly, a vote does not make a democracy: the simple fact that the authors had all the time to agree on the text means that they were much more prepared than the 'no'-voters at the critical time. We had to build our argumentation on-the-fly, while everything was being done. This is not equally fair on both sides. Thus I do not believe that this was democratic. Volker, Tom: Please consider the tone of my first email, and the tone of your answers. Please consider the "code of conduct" that was just voted. Can you see why I may feel that you broke it clearly and cleanly at my expense ? If those rules are not only meant to apply to me, do you think the community should react to that ? Andrew: "if one person tells me I'm being rude I'll probably take notice [...]. If four people tell me I'm being rude then I change my behaviour" The book I read these days is entitled "Nonviolent communication: a language of life". Because of the way I talk, many persons stop at the words and stop caring about the meaning. It does harm to my professional life and in my private life too. You would be wrong to believe that I do not care. Some opinions, however, are hard to defend. "Against a code saying 'be nice'". As Jeroen said: not because of 'be nice', but because it is a code. Some are hard to defend, because 10 persons agree and you are the only one to disagree. It is so easy for them to disregard your opinion: they litterally do not have to care: they are sufficiently many to do what they wish whatever you think. Yet you believe that there is truth in what you say. Please note, however, that in this thread you do not have to complain about my behaviour as much as I could complain about others'. So, somehow. There are changes. Finally: I do not forget why I created this thread, and the list of original authors still has not been made public. We deserve this much respect. Nathann P.S.: Five interesting pages that a friend sent me: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp1468/Welcome_files/Srinivasan_In%20Defence%20of%20Anger.pdf [1] No public announcements; Private exchanges; Hidden list of participants: this is what 'in secret' means. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
