On 31 December 2010 22:49, Eliot Miranda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Guillermo Polito > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oh, come on... >> >> Levente, we all agree with you. Pharo is trying to use that deprecation >> policy since some months ago... Sometimes people make mistakes (me >> included) and don't do it, but we agreed that we have to deprecate and >> remove after two versions of being deprecated. >> >> I'm tired of this stupid arguments. >> >> I expect the new year will bring us more doing and less discussing :). > > Unless we are prepared to discuss, discover, admit and correct our mistakes > our doing will be of little worth. I don't see anything stupid in > discussing deprecation policy. This criticism of Levente is entirely > unjustified and reminds me of recent treatment of certain prominent > whistle-blowers. Can we just drop the childish feelings of hurt, and direct > ourselves to the substance of arguments rather than our immediate emotional > reactions to email? We should all know by now that email is a particularly > inexpressive medium, prone to misinterpretation and therefore it behooves us > to take a breath before we reply and try and read beyond our surface > perceptions. [I am a hypocrite in this regard having over-reacted recently > over timestamps.]
I have expressed my disgust about stamps quite emotionally too. Didn't mean to hurt anybody, just were too sad that we have to spend our energy to take care about things like that instead of doing something else. > Doubtless we are all imperfect in our use of email and can all do better > here. But we won't get any better by lacking objectivity and reacting > emotionally to valid criticism. Can we make one of our new year's > resolutions an attempt to be less emotional and more objective in all our > email discussions in the broader Squeak community? Please? Amen. > Happy New Year > Eliot >> -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
