2011/11/30 Moritz Wilhelmy <[email protected]>: > Hello Heiko, Hello list, > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 14:00:44 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: >> And the comparison to the German wall is also improper. > > It seems it was enough to get your attention. It had to be either a foul > wall comparison or a foul Facebook comparison, although Facebook would > probably have been less off than what I said, being cool and in the web > and all. > > Would you have replied without an insult or politically incorrectness, > striking up the debate? I'm sorry for insulting you, but I think we > should either drop this or take it off-list. Contrary to popular belief, > I'm just someone who likes to speak openly, not a "rude person", but > someone you can actually talk to. > (See the bottom of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17039, and > yes, I still believe the criticism was valid at that point, but I could > have said it more politely. This is just another example of me being an > asshole sometimes, but I don't usually mean it. "He who is without being > the occasional asshole on the internet among you, let him to be the > first to throw a stone at me. Ow. That hurts.") > > Chances might be that someone hacks my "dead" account and uses it for > posting malicious PKGBUILDs. After all, the AUR is written in PHP, no? > PHP had some very serious and embarassing security issues in the not too > distant past, and there is no guarantee that this will not happen again > tomorrow or maybe next week. This would clear my conciousness that > there's somewhere an account lurking in the dark. Someone might then > mistake me for the account owner and blame me for the malicious doings > of a third party. > > I will - and that's One Hundred Percent certain - never use this account > again. It was sometimes fun working with some of you, but I > fundamentally disagree with Arch's interpretation of "lightweight" and > the way releases are handled, but this has nothing to do in this thread > and will supposedly be taken as a flamebait (because "KISS" and > "rolling-release" seems to be the holy grail of using Arch and > disagreeing is taken as a personal insult by many users). I do not want > a flamewar, just to clarify my reasons, since some of you seem to wonder > why I'd want to delete that account anyway. > > If someone points me to the AUR code, I might make one very last > contribution, namely implementing a way to purge an account, with some > options like leaving forum posts intact. I also think, usernames should > not be reused, in order to avoid confusion. Over all, the project sounds > doable, however I have no idea yet how the AUR's database looks. > > To Pierre, thanks for your statement. > Thanks to all of you for your past few years of cooperation (more than > two, but I didn't count how many exactly). I've learned much through > arch, but now it's time to finally say goodbye. My last remaining Arch > machine will go down on 2011-12-09. > > > Best regards, > > Moritz
At the very best, this is mailing list pollution with an overly dramatic tone. I can't be the only one disliking this type of thread on an otherwise on-topic list, so I kindly request this to be taken elsewhere. The AUR project code is available here: http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/ Good luck in future endavors.
