On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:06:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And you have been told repeatedly that the actual real life users on > this actual real life list would like you to stop doing it. We didn't > write that FAQ, I fail to see how it applies and this is not -dev, not > does QA play any role in this. The etiquette was perceived to apply anywhere for Gentoo Developers; as you can see, this perception conflicts when coming across different expectations, and therefore the exception has been made. This isn't the first time this difference comes up; a former Gentoo Developer, Ciaran, has had a similar moment[1] on this mailing list about 10 years ago with different people around at a point of time where this appears to not have been a strict rule on this mailing list. [1]: "[gentoo-user] Mailing List etiquette FAQ" @ Google Groups https://groups.google.com/d/msg/linux.gentoo.user/2-Zv19Ggyus/is5ug9mcCcwJ > Now please learn to play by the rules and expectations of the existing > users of a community you have joined newly. The rules and expectations were perceived per etiquette; there's no other place where I can see them listed for the gentoo-user ML in specific, therefore I cannot assume one or two individuals to speak the truth about those rules. Perhaps we can start such a list of rules? It gets odd if they conflict with what Gentoo Developers are expected to do per the etiquette, you can see I need to be careful with what I do; therefore I've continued to do what a Gentoo Developer is expected to. That's why I was only convinced at the point that a lot more than those two individuals made this request; at that point, it becomes clear that this is a majority rather than those two individuals that asked me. > If the doc is so important to you, please update it with an exception > for -user and state this is the general consensus of that list. Done. > Then please learn how to back down and gracefully accept the wishes of > others. You have no special rights here. As per more users, that was done; I always intend to follow the rules. Sorry; I hope you see where this approach came from, I'm not trying to override a majority or intentionally act different than the community. Sorry again; thank you for your understanding. PS: To make it clear that I stopped: The last 15 mails were without CC. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
