Re: Question for Andreas and Branden

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:04:47AM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > The notion of asking politeness is not reprehensible at all. The notion of *enforcing* it, for some arbitrary notion of 'politeness', is what I was referring to (check the quote from my previous mail). > Technically you could hold

Re: Question for Andreas and Branden

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Schuessler
The notion of asking politeness is not reprehensible at all. The question is who will categorize things as "rude". In Ubuntu I would imagine that anyone who challenges "management" long enough would be considered "rude" if their views could not be reconciled. Debian theoretically has no manageme

Re: Question for Andreas and Branden

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:42:05PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Here's one concrete point of disagreement. Andreas is pretty earnest about > "changing the culture" of Debian, and has brainstormed some ideas along > these lines, mostly having to do with punitive enforcement of courtesy > standa

Re: Question for Andreas and Branden

2005-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:16:34PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote: > First of all I want to thank you for running as DPL. It's never been an easy decision to make for me -- and it gets harder every year -- but your support makes it easier. I'm sure Andreas similarly welcomes your support. > In order