On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Alistair Bush <ali_b...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Sorry to rain on your parade, but with ciaranm's consistent history, > > allowing him to participate in Gentoo's discussions itself is a > > privilege of patience on the part of the Gentoo community. > > > > I would believe that recent history would show the opposite.
Recent "history" does not change the nature of a person, nor does it rebuild the bridges they have burnt. > There seem > to be a group of developers at which the mere mention of ciaranm results > in setting them off. So you expect us to just ignore all his past problems and give him a fresh start everytime someone mentions him? Do you really expect us to not take a persons well-known history into account when dealing with them? This is at best unrealistic and at worst trollish. > Regardless of the technical merits of a solution > they seem more interested in just derailing anything that might have > anything to do with ciaramn. > What the hell does this discussion have to do with technical merits of any solution? Please don't attempt a validity by association[1]. > I realise that ciaranm has had a nasty past. But recently I haven't see > anything. Having witnessed Ciaran playing nice for a while before getting back to vitriolic attacks several times before, I take all this with a record-shatteringly-massive grain of salt. I would like to see good behavior for much longer before bringing my guard down. I keep an open and forgiving mind, but not so much that my brains fall out and get eaten by zombies. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan
