* Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> [2010-11-03 17:24:40 CET]: > This discussion is ridiculous. Even if I contacted you before creating the > wiki page it would not change the fact that the page on the website has > not been working for years.
Right - it though would had followed the first paragraph of the site and worked for improving the situation instead of creating a fork of the service the site tries to offer. > Also consider that this discussion will be seen by people I invited to start > contributing to Debian to what should be a small task and instead they see > how quickly people get upset in Debian and why it's best to do nothing if > you don't want to be flamed for it. :-( What they see is that it is encouraged and explicitly invited to contact the people involved with the services you want to use beforehand, not create an external site and then request redirect of the existing service to that external site, insisting on that the existing service is dysfunctional without any approach to try to get that fixed. > > From the very first paragraph of the page: > > > > "If a talk is missing, please get in touch with the [events people] > > including all details." > > > > If you didn't even get that far I fear others won't go any much further > > on the wiki page neither. Wording improvements very welcome, as is a > > discussion on wether this should be changed to debian-www or wether the > > events people are willing to keep maintaining these parts. > > Suggestion: > > <h2>Submit a talk</h2> > > If you want to submit a new talk, or if you know of a missing talk, > please mail eve...@debian.org with required information (title, date, > language of the presentation, name of the speaker, URL of the slides). If > the talk is not available online, please include it as an attachment. Sounds good, thanks for the suggestion. > > Thanks for following the general Debian approach of non-communication. > > Thanks for entertaining the fact that contributing to Debian requires to > cope with flames. You mean like you stated in your blog entry about this? Only speak for yourself. That your accusion isn't received too well, especially without any approach about getting things fixed, is just natural. Thanks, Rhonda -- <dholbach> Last day of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek starting in 34 minutes in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.feenode.net * ScottK hands dholbach an "r". <Rhonda> Are they fundraising again? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
