Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 12:13, Murray J. Root wrote: > >> Could we please have a little civility in the posts to the mailing list? >> There is nothing gained by calling people "stupid" or "dunce". The recipients >> of such offensive comments are not any more motivated after the comment >> than they were before, and I know if it were me, I'd be *less* motivated. >> The Mandrake team does a great job generally, so if there's a problem >> in a specific detail - give them a break. Constructive criticism may >> help get it resolved for the next version - destructive criticism will >> accomplish nothing. > > Since I'm the one who posted that I'll presume you're addressing this to > me in care of the entire cooker list. > > It was not and is not my intention to offend. Intentions aside, I would > like to offer an apology to the Mdk folks who took my posting as a > personal affront. I will make an earnest effort to choose my words more > carefully. > > I do _not_ retract the criticism itself. It stands.
I was not offensed by Brad comments, in a sense that I deepfully understand him, and that he was right to criticize that his 2 weeks old bug only was solved the day before the final. The thing is just that we try to do what we can with what we have, and that in this difficult period we have not so many developers, and that all of them are way to much busy, and as a consequence we have to face priorities and hard choices. -- Warly
