Being Helpful - The ASF Code of Conduct

2015-07-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The circumstances that had Katharine make this report are still being investigated. I have no comment about that, although it appears that Rory has provide assistance for what we know of Katharine's difficulty. However that goes, I think it is time to remind folks of the ASF Code of Co

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-22 Thread DaveMainwaring
H learn something new i.e ASF acronyms drive me bonkers http://tinyurl.com/2osf53 These pages attempt to list all resources and information related to ASF development process. It contains information aimed at developers, committers, release managers and pmc members. If you cannot find your a

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/21/2014 2:11 PM, Maggie Butler wrote: Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters could be isolated? Most email clients have a mechanism to filter out messages from unwanted sources. Of course, so many times, people are tempted to "feed the troll" and re

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/21/2014 10:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory's approach to be entirely wi

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread James Knott
On 11/21/2014 02:11 PM, Maggie Butler wrote: > Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters > could be isolated? It's possible in many email apps to forward such messages to trash. - To unsubscribe

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Maggie Butler
Would the user forum consider adding an "Ignore" feature so abusive posters could be isolated? On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:02 AM, mt wrote: > On 21/11/14 at 4:21 PM, dennis.hamil...@acm.org (Dennis E. Hamilton) > wrote: > > Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community de

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread mt
On 21/11/14 at 4:21 PM, dennis.hamil...@acm.org (Dennis E. Hamilton) wrote: Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory'

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Urmas wrote: > > Let's leave rote instructions and faux politeness to Hindu phone support, > shall we? Urmas: That's another offensive statement that is not appropriate on this mailing list. As a list moderator I suggest you voluntarily withdraw from conversati

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread James Plante
Just a reminder, folks: Can we please avoid feeding the troll? Jim > On Nov 21, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Urmas wrote: > > "Dennis E. Hamilton": > >> I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit... > > Giving generic advices cannot be 'in spirit' for any support. We can afford > people w

Re: ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Urmas
"Dennis E. Hamilton": I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit... Giving generic advices cannot be 'in spirit' for any support. We can afford people who have mettle to actually say the OP is an idiot who wants to terminate his sentences with NumPad decimal dot, for example. Le

ASF Code of Conduct

2014-11-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Recently, this contribution was being celebrated on the ASF Community dev list. I think it is very useful to keep in mind when supporting users: . I find Rory's approach to be entirely within the spirit and I commend his gentility for emu