Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Brian, On 06/19/10 11:37, Brian Harring wrote: > and you do not go into someone's home and tell them > what they can/cannot say. right. #gentoo-infra is not anybody's home though: it's an infra-matter channel of Gentoo. If you like to view it as anybody's home it's home of Gentoo and therefor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:00:26AM +, Duncan wrote: > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto posted on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:20:08 + as > excerpted: > > > you're confusing talk and jokes between developers on a particular > > private room with tone between members of the global community in public > > m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-18 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 06/18/10 05:43, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> Hmm - thats interesting, I subconsciously read the two questions into >> the one posted. I accept you point. Its something I am likely to >> write myself without thinking about it too much too. > > Oh, this is a good one. Without introducing the prob

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:29:13 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: > > "Have you pointed this out to DevRel? What was their reaction?" > > > > does not seem to have this mis-hearing problem, at least not to me. > > > Hmm - thats interesting, I subconsciously read the two questions into > the one posted.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-17 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.06.16 23:33, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Roy, > > > On 06/16/10 21:40, Roy Bamford wrote: > > As a native English speaker (from England) I view Jers reply as > terse > > and to the point, completely lacking in tone. > > interesting. Looking at the sentence > > "When did you point thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Jeroen, On 06/16/10 21:31, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > 1) that there are probably some good examples of the bad tone that sping > referred to, perhaps in the devrel/userrel domain and therefore not > initially public, and that unless those projects fail (to uphold the > CoC), we should probably not b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Nikos, thanks for speaking up on this matter. I encourage more Gentoo users to make them heard with this. Best, Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Roy, On 06/16/10 21:40, Roy Bamford wrote: > As a native English speaker (from England) I view Jers reply as terse > and to the point, completely lacking in tone. interesting. Looking at the sentence "When did you point this out to devrel?" I would like to say that while it's not impolite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.06.16 16:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/16/2010 08:43 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:33:27 +0200 > > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > >> Tone is currently not a strength of Gentoo. > >> > >> As I have heard there are people not joining Gentoo because the > >> atmo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:36:31 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Those replies are a good example of the rude behavior the poster is > referring to. The replies consisted of sarcastic questions in > "you're an idiot" style. The only thing they do is trying to trigger > a hostile response from the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/16/2010 08:43 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:33:27 +0200 >> Sebastian Pipping  wrote: >> >>> Tone is currently not a strength of Gentoo. >>> >>> As I have heard there are people not joining Gentoo because the