On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:26 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > Please let's continue this discussion and public debate. I do not > believe that the policy has been defended properly. I will continue > to petition this list to consider alteration until the reason for the > policy has been made clear.
Continue to do so and you will continue to not have access to GNOME services. Two things strike me here: 1). If your preferred username was "cjsmith" we would not be having this discussion. Despite your protestations to the contrary, this crusade you're on is not motivated by any interest in improving GNOME services, but by your desire to have the username you want. 2). You talk about the work you have done for GNOME, and yet you're willing to let a module you have recently pushed to maintain slide into further deprecation pending you getting the username you want. If you're dedicated to GNOME software development, actions speak louder than words. Stop tilting the username windmill and get hacking. This is not a problem for anyone else. You're the only one complaining about it. This "issue" has not caused any problems in terms of delivering services to GNOME contributors. If it was such a big issue, I would expect that it would have had at least one consequence before now. It hasn't, other than the fact your last name isn't Smith. It's a tempest in a teapot. Until we hit a wall that forces us to reconsider this policy, I see no reason to change the policy to something that could break from something that is not broken. One man's opinion. But my question to you is, "Are you more interested in your vanity username or does your desire to contribute to the project trump that? If you're so dedicated to the GNOME project, why is the fact you can't have your desired username (which I could not, either) stopping you from being a productive contributor?" Let's move on, shall we? ./k kurt von finck -- http://www.mneptok.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- public key at: pgp.mit.edu server key id: 5229D26A -- Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang -- _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
