Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines"): > I'm not interested in having a private discussion about public issues; > I'll reply to your points on -project without quoting your private > message. I don't have time right now to deal with any of the substantive s

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:36:07PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:25:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Anyone considering voting for me, don't, because none of you moronic pieces > > of shit are worthy of my leadership. [...] > > What!? That is by far the dumbest f

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:25:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 1) "flamage" appears in The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing and the > Jargon file; "flameage" appears in neither. It might be best to avoid > this word altogether and substitute something like "emotional > rhetoric". Flames

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:25:09 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 8) I was unaware that RFC 1738[2] had been obsoleted. Could you please > advise me as to which RFC supersedes it? It's not obsoleted, but it's updated by RFC1808, RFC2368 and RFC2396 RFC1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators RFC

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Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> I disapprove of the `wontfix' tag, in principle. It seems to me that Ian> there are three possible relevant situations: Ian> * There is a deficiency in the package, but perhaps the maintainer Ian> does not have time or expertise t

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, Man, talk about being talked down to. Ian> DISPUTES BETWEEN DEVELOPERS Ian> A *DRAFT* joint recommendation of the the Technical Committee, the Ian> Project Leader and the Bug Tracking System Administrators.

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > DISPUTES BETWEEN DEVELOPERS > > A *DRAFT* joint recommendation of the the Technical Committee, the > Project Leader and the Bug Tracking System Administrators. Good work from you and also Branden's corrections. Once the document is ready

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:38:13AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm not sure the issue of severities needs dealing with explicitly > here. It needs to be dealt with somewhere, and the Technical Committee has explicitly punted on resolving such disputes. If we don't discuss the issue in this docume

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[in reply to a private message of iwj's that discusses nothing in confidence] So that I do not quote Ian's private mail to me, I will simply enumerate the substance of the issues raised. 0) In a document that is supposed to speak for a large collective, I think it is important to minimize the num

Re: Disputes between developers - draft guidelines

2002-10-17 Thread Adam Heath
Before I comment on any of the actual points below, I'd like to make some statements first. I have been seen in public reopening bugs that have been incorrectly closed by bad changelog entries. I have done this with my [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat on. However, this wrong. I still feel very strongly o