On Thursday 13 March 2008 08:31:59 Soren Hansen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:14:23AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > >> Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was > > >> not at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive > > >> contributions to Ubuntu developmen. > > > > > >But it's cool for Cory to flame doko because Cory's a developer? > > >Interesting. > > > > No, not cool. I just didn't like the response. We all write things > > we shouldn't every now and then. It doesn't mean we need to have > > random strangers sending us form letters. > > Ok, so Cory sends an e-mail to a public mailing list in an "intemperate" > tone. Todd finds this inapproriate, and shares this feeling with Cory > and the rest of us, in a tone this is the diametrically opposite of > intemperate. And you decide to tell *Todd* off due to his tone, because > Cory has done more work on Ubuntu than him? > > Well, as dholbach so nicely put it, if people are regular contributors > to Ubuntu, they should be setting a good example, so if I were to tell > one of Todd or Cory off, it'd most certainly be Cory. I would have done > so, but Todd did it just fine, IMO, and applying your logic, since I've > been a core-dev longer than you, my opinion is better than yours, right?
I've thought about this some more and I think I understand my negative reaction to Todd's mail better. The problem wasn't that he responded or that he's not a developer. What bothered me was that it sounded like a standard stock response. This is supposed to be Linux for human beings and I didn't feel like Todd's mail took into account the unique human things that would have caused Cory to write such a mail. Cory certainly should (IMO) have expressed his understandable frustration with the situation in a more positive/better way and it was appropriate of Todd to point that out (developer or not). I just wish he'd been less impersonal about it. Thanks for pushing back on my response. I learned something from it. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
