Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Norbert Preining writes: > On Do, 28 Nov 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: >> but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which >> may help put things in perspective.: > [...] >> Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we >> replaced the phrase “politica

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 28 Nov 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which > may help put things in perspective.: [...] > Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we > replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could wit

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian Gupta writes: > I think you may be mistaking "Unix tradition" [1] for "Troll culture" [2], > but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which > may help put things in perspective.: > I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday > which in

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian Gupta writes ("Re: Code of Conduct: picking up"): > I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which > may help put things in perspective.: > > I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) > yesterday which included the phrase `In these days of political

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Inevitably, the CoC will be voted on in a GR. The right time to >> continue this dogpile is in the vote. > > Mh… we’ll see how that turns out. > >> Norbert Preining writes ("Re: Code of Conduct:

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thorsten Glaser > This is true. While many of such jokes are probably something > undesirable, some people go actively against any and all jokes > of that matter (I’ve had that Arabic script crashing Apple’s > text thingy in my .sig for a while, and got told off for it > very brusquely, so I h

Re: DPL helpers meeting on wednesday (2013-11-27)

2013-11-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/11/13 at 14:11 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > As previously announced, we will have a DPL helpers meeting tomorrow > (2013-11-27), at 18:00 UTC, on #debian-dpl. Hi, The meeting happened. Minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-dpl/2013/debian-dpl.2013-11-27-17.58.html Min

Re: Code of Conduct: picking up

2013-11-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > Inevitably, the CoC will be voted on in a GR. The right time to > continue this dogpile is in the vote. Mh… we’ll see how that turns out. > Norbert Preining writes ("Re: Code of Conduct: picking up"): > > Why don't we try to be *honest*, something like