Jakub Moc wrote: > Bryan Østergaard napsal(a): >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:46:47AM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: >>> And you come here to tell us that people shouldn't get confused by these >>> 'very few' retirements, that the sun in still shining nicely and we are >>> recruiting people as always? And that you will continue silently >>> watching the trolls team associated around mips and ciaranm call people >>> fuckheads, idiots and making a gutter of something that's supposed to be >>> a development mailing list? > >> Never said anything like that. > > So, what are you planning to do about this? Sorry, but all I've seen > here so far is evading the real problem and saying people they should > ignore ciaranm and alikes. This apparently doesn't work, any other plan? > > Like, any plan to make the mips team totally poisoned by ciaranm's > stupid elitism and infallibleness behave in a civilized way again?
I should point out here... that not all of the MIPS team are like
Ciaran. I'll admit, I'm not exactly bursting with technical knowledge
-- there are some big gaps there. I'd like to change this, however it
isn't going to happen overnight.
Conversely, I'd like to think that many of us do use significantly more
tact than you make out.
On a somewhat related note... I've sat back and watched this argument
for some time now. Banning people seems like an extremely drastic
measure. Sure, it's easy. It's also easily circumvented, and is only a
short-term solution. I don't think it's the answer.
Nor, I should point out, is treating devrel like the football. They're
in a very difficult position here -- one I would not like to be placed
in myself. And in this circumstance, they can't afford to be hasty --
the wrong decision could cost Gentoo dearly in many ways that may not be
apparent to people now.
How's this for an idea though... Rather than banning *people*... why
not temporarily ban a thread? I know this is easily possible on forum
threads -- mailing lists are more difficult, but if one could lock a
thread for a day or so -- that might allow people to cool off before
picking up the thread again.
I think in such flamewars, it's *everyone* that needs to cool off, not
just those who start them.
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''.
Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` :
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.'
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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