Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > That was me. I apologise for the confusion I generated. I get annoyed at > people who don't CC the right people when sending mail. In this case I > probably should have sent you Federico direct mail pointing at the > archives instead.
This is called snitch-tagging in other forums like Twitter, and there's a reason why it's considered extremely rude. Please let us have internal conversations without using them to prematurely pick fights with external maintainers. If those maintainers really want to see every Debian discussion about their work, they can search or read the archives; they're all open. But, quite wisely, they generally don't. That's because any group says all sorts of things in the heat of the moment that the whole project may or may not agree with, or that may change over time as we discuss them in more depth, or that, even if we would stand by the sentiment, aren't phrased in a constructive or productive way because it was an internal discussion (which can include some blowing off of steam). Dragging external developers into every Debian discussion concerning their work doesn't lead to higher-quality and more inclusive discussion. It leads to people not talking on public lists at all and taking the same conversation private, which is a loss for everyone. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
