Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 6/19/10 8:43 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > As long as it doesn't get actively hostile we can continue with a > pretty large amount of friction. Read the archives of this mailing > list if you want to see how much :) I think that is the point. Is just not being actively hostile a success? I'd say

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Duncan
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:20:08 + as excerpted: > you're confusing talk and jokes between developers on a particular > private room with tone between members of the global community in public > mediums. It's possible that's the case. However, it's also the case

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Matti Bickel
On 06/19/2010 09:10 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > I think that is the point. Is just not being actively hostile a success? Given our past, yes. Given the size of our project, yes. The sheer size of the project guarantees that not everybody will like everyone. They merely get along and no thread

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:00:26AM +, Duncan wrote: > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:20:08 + as > excerpted: > > > you're confusing talk and jokes between developers on a particular > > private room with tone between members of the global community in public > > m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 June 2010 09:10, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 6/19/10 8:43 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> As long as it doesn't get actively hostile we can continue with a >> pretty large amount of friction. Read the archives of this mailing >> list if you want to see how much :) > > I think that is the poi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Jorge, On 06/19/10 05:20, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > you're confusing talk and jokes between developers on a particular > private room with tone between members of the global community in public > mediums. It wasn't #gentoo-roughshit, it was in #gentoo-infra - the place devs go on infra

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > I was more or less told to fuck off if I don't like the tone. Please watch your language, this is a public mailing-list. Denis.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> I was more or less told to fuck off if I don't like the tone. > > Please watch your language, this is a public mailing-list. > I think that now we've come full-circle, and render

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nirbheek, On 06/19/10 17:34, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > No, really, flaming #gentoo-infra on the gentoo-dev mailing list is > silly, useless *and* ironic (in this case). It's not about the infra team, it's about communication in the #gentoo-infra channel. All of "silly, useless *and* ironic" cou

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Jeremy, On 06/19/10 06:45, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On 06/18/2010 09:25 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >>In #gentoo-infra > > #gentoo-infra is a private channel and you don't have to be in there. No > public community members/users are in there. The "tone" can be anything > that is acceptable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 06/19/10 08:43, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Now that's tone in Gentoo. Brilliant. > > And you're ugly! > > Hey, you're doing it yourself. You're using sarcasm (I assume you do, > otherwise the positive "Brilliant." doesn't fit in the context of "Oh > dear, these rude people said that!") You got

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Brian, On 06/19/10 11:37, Brian Harring wrote: > and you do not go into someone's home and tell them > what they can/cannot say. right. #gentoo-infra is not anybody's home though: it's an infra-matter channel of Gentoo. If you like to view it as anybody's home it's home of Gentoo and therefor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2010 16:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Jeremy, > > > On 06/19/10 06:45, Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> On 06/18/2010 09:25 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> >>>In #gentoo-infra >> >> #gentoo-infra is a private channel and you don't have to be in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 06/19/10 17:34, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> No, really, flaming #gentoo-infra on the gentoo-dev mailing list is >> silly, useless *and* ironic (in this case). > > It's not about the infra team, it's about communication in the > #gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/19/2010 01:06 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: On 19-06-2010 16:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: #gentoo-infra is a channel on infra matters. The fact that it's developers only doesn't make it a private channel in a sense of "tone doesn't matter". you've failed to notice an important po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Richard Freeman
On 06/19/2010 06:54 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) many people are not getting more involved and volunteering to become developers is the level of in-fighting and the ineffective way that bullies

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Nominations are now open

2010-06-19 Thread Samuli Suominen
>> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2010/2011 are now open for the next >> two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2010). > I'd like to nominate betelgeuse, calchan, and ssuominen (no way you're getting > out of here that easy). thanks for nominating, but i'll decline - Samuli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
> If #gentoo-infra bangs their moms the rest of the community deserves to > know. Oh? What do you do at night with your girlfriend (or boyfriend or yourself)? The community deserves to know! > > You have shown to be very attached to this topic, so much so that you've > > just blown this comple

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 13.06.2010 22:36, schrieb Duncan: > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:26:26 + as > excerpted: > >> there was a proposal to create a sunset overlay, like the java team used >> and now kde uses as well. The purpose of this overlay would be to keep >> the packages that a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:54:25 +0200 Ben de Groot wrote: > This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top > reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) Unfortunately, that's selecting a rather biased audience. The success of a forum depends upon the number of active posters it has

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Dale
Ben de Groot wrote: On 19 June 2010 09:10, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: On 6/19/10 8:43 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: As long as it doesn't get actively hostile we can continue with a pretty large amount of friction. Read the archives of this mailing list if you want to see how much :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 06/19/10 19:50, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> If #gentoo-infra bangs their moms the rest of the community deserves to >> know. > > Oh? What do you do at night with your girlfriend (or boyfriend or yourself)? > The community deserves to know! My point was about the style of communication in ther

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 06/19/10 19:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top >> reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) > > Unfortunately, that's selecting a rather biased audience. The success > of a forum depends upon the number of active posters it has. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2010 17:40, Richard Freeman wrote: > On 06/19/2010 01:06 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> On 19-06-2010 16:15, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >>> #gentoo-infra is a channel on infra matters. >>> The fact that it's developers only doesn't mak

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:57:03 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > This may apply to easy and/or 99%-technical problems with a dictator > around. That's not what we have here. It's two black-and-white for > my taste, too. No, that's the nice thing about delivering a product based upon technical meri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ciaran, On 06/19/10 21:16, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > No, that's the nice thing about delivering a product based upon > technical merit: most of the time, there are right answers and there > are wrong answers, and careful investigation and good management can > lead to it being determined which is

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Voting

2010-06-19 Thread Roy Bamford
Team, Everything is in place to allow voting in the above election commence as planned on June 20th at 00:00:00 UTC. The polls will remain open until July 3rd 23:59:59 UTC. Your candidates are:- betelgeuse chainsaw ferringb halcy0n jmbsvicetto patrick phajdan.jr scarabeus sping wired _reopen_no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 June 2010 19:50, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: >> If #gentoo-infra bangs their moms the rest of the community deserves to >> know. > > Oh? What do you do at night with your girlfriend (or boyfriend or yourself)? > The community deserves to know! Take it somewhere else. We dont want this here. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/traits: traits-3.4.0.ebuild

2010-06-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday, June 10, 2010 16:45:29 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2010-06-10 22:20:44 Nirbheek Chauhan napisał(a): > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar wrote: > > > 2010-06-10 21:27:40 Jeremy Olexa napisał(a): > > >> I see no reason to *not* add a ChangeLog

[gentoo-dev] Manifesto for council election

2010-06-19 Thread Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
As you've seen, Chainsaw is on the list as a council candidate. I use Gentoo in a professional capacity, as a UNIX systems administrator for one of the largest internet exchanges in the world [1]. Right now, I administer 42 machines running non-multilib hardened AMD64. The topic of "Gentoo in the e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 June 2010 19:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:54:25 +0200 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> This is a point that deserves more consideration. One of the top >> reasons (as witnessed in forum discussions) > > Unfortunately, that's selecting a rather biased audience. The success > o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:03:31 +0200 Ben de Groot wrote: > That is an incredibly shortsighted and cynic look at the community. > Keep it off this list. I consider that remark disrespectful. By rejecting comments in such an impolite manner, and without explaining why you think the comment is incorre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/19/10 18:20, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> And never forget, I don't care if you're upset that I filed 35 bugs for >> you. > If you mean what you say: that's pretty insensitive. But I honestly don't care how you _feel_ about a bug. There's a defect. It's a fact. The only way to change it is to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/19/10 23:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:03:31 +0200 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> That is an incredibly shortsighted and cynic look at the community. >> Keep it off this list. > > I consider that remark disrespectful. By rejecting comments in such an > impolite manner, and w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread David Leverton
On Saturday 19 June 2010 22:03:31 Ben de Groot wrote: > It is about whether Gentoo wants to keep around people [...] who > continually attack others Considering the number of attacks directed towards Paludis developers (and sometimes users), and lack of corresponding punishment, I can only assume

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/19/10 23:57, David Leverton wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2010 22:03:31 Ben de Groot wrote: >> It is about whether Gentoo wants to keep around people [...] who >> continually attack others > > Considering the number of attacks directed towards Paludis developers (and > sometimes users), and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Domen Kožar
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread David Leverton
On Saturday 19 June 2010 23:01:33 Patrick Lauer wrote: > you're actively stepping in the way of moving fists to complain that > people punch you. Stop doing that. You mean banning trolls is an invitation for you to snip the trolling and publicly accusing me of banning them on a whim? (excerpt fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread David Leverton
On Saturday 19 June 2010 23:05:25 Domen Kožar wrote: > http://xkcd.com/386/ s/wrong/attacking me in public/ and it might be closer.