Niels Möller writes: > [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> I dare say that technical expertise does not excuse disdain and >> contempt. This behavior is actively harmful to GMP and GNU. > > Some developers may be more polite than others, but you really need to > follow the bug reporting instructions. If it is a bug in gmp, we'd like > to fix it, of course. Or if it's a configuration error, we'd like to > resolve that too, but then we still need to start with the proper bug > reporting information.
Certainly that's true, though of course a "please file this upstream in GMP, we'd really like to handle it there" would be a nice way to handle things. And of course hashing out what's happening locally is not unusual behavior; Debian does much work to determine whether a bug is a Debian-local issue or if it is an upstream issue, and if so (hopefully) file and resolve upstream. It is not always a perfect process, but Guix is also a distribution, and it's unsurprising that some conversation would likely happen here first. I doubt that Ludovic would have been opposed to filing upstream if the upstream developers encouraged that... I don't think that was the issue here. >> It also illustrates why codes of conduct are more than a cosmetic >> gimmick. > > I'd prefer not to not have the general code-of-conduct-debate on the > gmp-bugs list. Sure, though this conversation was on the Guix list. > If you are disappointed about any individual's behaviour, I suspect it's > usually more productive to start by trying to solve it off list (maybe > you did? I wouldn't know of course). Mailing list discussons about > personal issues tend to overheat too easily. Sometimes that's true, and I agree, contacting an individual off-list is usually the first line to handle, especially for smaller issues. In general, I think this is the best approach to get good community interaction. I don't know if it happened or not. Though sometimes it is good to give a reply on-list, even in the first instance, so that it can be clear to a community what behavior is and isn't okay. > (And it has taken me more than 30 minutes to formulate this reply, which > I hope is sufficiently polite and respectful. I really hope that was time > well spent). I thought it was very polite and respectful, thank you! - Chris > Best regards, > /Niels _______________________________________________ gmp-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-bugs
