John and Kai-Martin, Of course my response was intentionally, exaggeratedly generous to the moderators... I was just trying to get something from this discussion onto the list for public visibility.
Obviously the list moderation is not being handled in a way that optimally supports the openness and freedom that is fundamental to the Free Software community and the gEDA project in particular. It would be a shame to see a mailing list fork (which I see coming) which would split the community. Regards, Colin -----> Happy with gEDA software... it's great -----> Happy with the many great people in the gEDA community -----> Not happy with moderation of geda-user mailing list On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 09:13:54 -0700 Colin D Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:33:50 -0700 > John Doty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You'll note that this message never appeared on the list. I never > > received the promised "notification of the moderator's decision", > > either. Eyes shut tight to unwelcome truth... > > Maybe it was accidentally overlooked. The mailing list software > probably makes it easy to lose a few messages in the noise. > > Regards, > Colin > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > > From: John Doty <[email protected]> > > > Date: August 2, 2011 12:56:22 PM MST > > > To: Colin D Bennett <[email protected]> > > > Cc: gEDA user mailing list <[email protected]>, Kai-Martin > > > Knaak <[email protected]> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Option to not > > > display polygons > > > > > > > > > On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > > >> I understand the desire to prevent spam to the list, but regular > > >> participants in the gEDA community shouldn't be punished > > >> unnecessarily. Especially when they are contributing so much! > > >> In this case, you scrambled to implement my request for a > > >> feature, finishing it in only a few hours! Then it > > >> waited--unnecessarily--for nearly two days before it could be > > >> shared with the world. > > > > > > The problem isn't spam. The problem is that the core developers > > > don't want to face certain critical issues, and define any attempt > > > to bring up said issues as disrespectful, and therefore > > > unprofessional. Kai-Martin is one person who is considered > > > disrespectful in this sense. > > > > > > I personally consider this "shoot the messenger" attitude as > > > antithesis of professionalism. It's unfortunately common in my > > > business, where it causes mission failures and sometimes kills > > > people. > > > > > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > > > http://www.noqsi.com/ > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > > http://www.noqsi.com/ > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
