-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Hi, i would like to extrapolate a discussion from the big "Sun Java > available from non-free" thread and comment and listen for comment on > it. In particular, the primary question is: Who can write on debian-devel? > Please, don't consider this a polemic message (except the last part > maybe... ;-) ): i would only understand because it not the first time i > read messages like the followings. > > Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:18:16PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> On 6/4/06, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:18:39AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: [snip] > > Because for someone that is not a "primary collaborator", a DD, but use > Sid to follow the Debian development, report and comments on bug, reply > to suggest improvement, collaborate with developer to solve problems > (DD: Please can you try this? What if you run... Your hardware in > uncommon, what do you see...) and express sane, constructive and polite > opinion on subjects that he judges important and, in general, acts > hoping to help the Debian project going on, even on non-regular basis, > well in all these cases replies like that of Anthony and Steve looks > unpolite and frustrating. > They seems to say: "If you don't write code, you cannot permit to speak > in debian-devel". Or, that is worse: "If you don't write code you are > not partecipating in the Debian development".
Since I also am not a DD, and daily use the fruits of their free labor, I try (probably am not totally successful) to "know my place", stay polite, and bite my tongue *especially* when it comes to on-topic threads like what should or should not be in Debian. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEg0TMS9HxQb37XmcRAmwFAJwOKhbH1d293JEsqw+iiFDjELZDfACdEmJM ZE4KgXHGnUJhIqxga/hrd7s= =aYnb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
