Dear Archlinux Governing Board,
I formally request a review of how and why I am moderated on AUR. I have
been given no explanation, and my posts (including the one below) simply do no
make it to the list and I receive no determination on them.
After being a member for more than 15 years, I feel this action was
unprofessional, uncalled for and completely arbitrary and the result of an
"I'll show you" abuse of position rather than a legitimate use of moderation
authority.
I strongly suspect this was the result of an off-list reply explaining to
Jelle that I didn't appreciate him jumping into a thread and claiming to be
able to read my mind. That was uncalled for, inappropriate and to suggest he
knew my thoughts was utter speculation.
This has been going on for months, and apparently the moderation is
permanent as I've been given no information on when the sentence will end.
I've always been respectful and mindful of my posts and this was no different.
I formally appeal the determination and request a review and full
determination on the merits. There was no justification for this and we should
have all grown beyond kindergarten and wanting to show who is top-dog on the
playground. That has no place in open-source.
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Subject: What is the policy/thoughts on embedding icons/emojis/unicode glyphs
in package descriptions in PKGbUILD
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:13:21 +0000
From: aur-general-ow...@lists.archlinux.org
To: drankina...@gmail.com
Your message to the Aur-general mailing-list was rejected for the following
reasons:
The message comes from a moderated member
The original message as received by Mailman is attached.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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Aur folk,
I've recently noticed icons or glyphs embedded in package descriptions that
get shown in the AUR RSS feed. What is the consensus or policy on doing so? A
recent example: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chat2db-bin
vim and xterm can't display them and instead show square boxes (vim
highlights the entire line in a red background)
Is there a policy or a consensus on this? Why not just limit the charset to
what vim or xterm supports?
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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