Re: [gentoo-dev] Please don't turn this into a pissing match. (was: pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative)

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 19:23, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I don't want to point fingers in any one direction, [...] but I would
>> really like it if the volatile mix of paludis/pkgcore developers would
>> not explode all over the mailing list. Please don't let the discussions
>> get personal.
>
> But you _should_ point fingers. The only way to make sure we have
> civil discussions is to point out bad behavior and let people know
> we don't tolerate that. And when such behavior is displayed
> repeatedly, we should exclude such people from taking part in
> our discussions. We don't need poisonous people, so let's
> get rid of them.
>

I didn't personally point fingers in this case because me doing so in
that discussion would not have been taken as a neutral party stance.
Besides both sides were being childish; and sending one mail is easier
than 2-3 ;p

Neutral parties are constantly encouraged to put a stop to anti-social
behaviour by polite means (and escalate when necessary). We don't like
to see bytes being wasted on unproductive discussions, but we don't
want a witch-hunt either :)

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team