On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:39 -0700, Ethan Osten wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:32 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2008, 19:13 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens: > > > Did I forgot something? > > > Xavier Claessens. > > > > Missing password security. And absolute no-go in the current shape. > > Hi. > > As an outside developer who very much wants to use Empathy in his > program, but also wants to rest assured that it will be widely available > and supported and used first[1], I have to say that I don't find your > attitude here at all helpful. What's the benefit here to being overtly > confrontational? > > If you have issues with the Empathy codebase - and it certainly seems > that you do - *please* try to bring them up in a civil manner, so that > they can be discussed and resolved. Otherwise, all you're doing is > inciting flamewars, which helps no one and keeps the real issues from > being addressed.
I'm sorry, I disagree, and I really hate when people react this way. Sven was not being confrontational. Saying "Missing password security" is just being factual, albeit syntetic. "And absolute no-go in the current shape" is just pointing out that lack of security is a feature that, in his opinion, should block inclusion in the desktop. [ I agree with this view, BTW, but that is beside the point ]. I am tired sick of people accusing other people of causing flamewars. If you attack a solution based objectively on its technical features/flaws, how can it be considered flaming? I think flamewars have more to do with attacking persons on a personal level, intentionally twisting facts to favour certain arguments, or re-hashing old discussions of highly controversial topics. I sensed none of those in Sven's post. Seriously, one of these days everyone will start to need a lawyer, or PR manager, to post messages to gnome desktop-devel... :| > > Thanks! > Ethan > > 1: IM is one of the areas that pretty much requires user input to be > usable, so if I rely upon it in my application when most of my users end > up using Pidgin or whatever, I'll end up with a feature that's useless > to my audience. You might as well just have said "Pidgin sucks!" :D Regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
