Re: Situation of long threads in -devel

2009-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le vendredi 14 août 2009 à 01:16 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Joss going from "what's the point in Standards-Version?" to filing a >> Lintian bug asking for configuration capabilities to make it easier to >> ignore the tag in the course of what felt like less than a

Re: Situation of long threads in -devel

2009-08-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 14 août 2009 à 01:16 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Joss going from "what's the point in Standards-Version?" to filing a > Lintian bug asking for configuration capabilities to make it easier to > ignore the tag in the course of what felt like less than a day (this is > subjective -- I

Re: Situation of long threads in -devel (was: Re: An apology to the mailing list and Charles Plessey)

2009-08-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Actually, these threads would indeed benefit a lot from a general > summary by the thread initiator. My current short view of them: > > - situation of new source packages format: I haven't followed that > one very much. It seems extinct as of now.

Re: Situation of long threads in -devel

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Christian Perrier writes: > >> I think that, in the very long threads that are currently cluttering up >> -devel, we would benefit from most participants to cool down and >> consider moving from the extreme positions I've seen when overreading

Re: Situation of long threads in -devel

2009-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Thank you for this message, Christian. It was really appreciated here. Christian Perrier writes: > I think that, in the very long threads that are currently cluttering up > -devel, we would benefit from most participants to cool down and > consider moving from the extreme positions I've seen wh

Situation of long threads in -devel (was: Re: An apology to the mailing list and Charles Plessey)

2009-08-14 Thread Christian Perrier
I take this message from Manoj as an opportunity: > Hi, > > Inadvertently, a draft copy of an email written in anger, and > not meant to be actually sent, was sent to the mailing list, instead > of a more reasoned response. > > For that I apologize. You may see from the second