Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-02-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 31 January 2005 16:16, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where disagreements are discussed politely, and where people who are unable to be civil are not glorified for their behaviour. This isn't too far from the

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-02-06 Thread Anthony Towns
Russell Coker wrote: On Monday 31 January 2005 16:16, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where disagreements are discussed politely, and where people who are unable to be civil are not glorified for their behaviour. This isn't too

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Anthony Towns
Russell Coker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, it's the I can deal with it therefore it's OK line. What if there is another solution? Are you even prepared to consider that possibility? That's not the issue. The issue is that there are many stressful situations in life and adults have to

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Helen Faulkner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050129 21:50]: What would you prefer: 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where disagreements are discussed politely, and where people who are unable to be civil are not glorified for their behaviour. or 2) - a community where

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux programmers. You can write excellent code and be nice and still get flamed a lot. This is just something you have

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Dave Holland
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:18:36PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: PS You really should talk to some mothers about the stress involved with raising children. Or fathers, maybe? Most reports make raising children sound about a million times more difficult than dealing with flames. Indeed. You

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 31 January 2005 02:03, Andreas Rottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux programmers. You can write excellent code

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Please don't CC me. I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:26, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting should be a

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
El Sábado 29 Enero 2005 22:47, Helen Faulkner escribió: Ahh, it's the I can deal with it therefore it's OK line. What if there is another solution? Are you even prepared to consider that possibility? What would you prefer: 1) - a community where people are pleasant to each other, where

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Helen Faulkner
Helen Faulkner wrote: Please don't CC me. I am on this list, and I therefore did not request to be CCd. Russell Coker wrote: [...] For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux programmers. You can write

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 30 January 2005 07:47, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who don't know Rusty has a fine collection of flames (and other silly messages) written to some very skillful Linux programmers. You can write excellent code and be nice and still get flamed a lot.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 30 January 2005 08:58, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: neither childish nor unreasonable, though it is possibly not actually much fun for Rusty and others. Receiving a flame that you can display at a conference dinner is something to be proud of! Some people are (in)famous

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:26, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for involvement in Debian.  Sadly, it seems to me that this is effectively the case.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:21, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  From the point of view of behaviour in Debian lists that is intimidating to newcomers and especially people who are shy or not very thick-skinned, the most troubling post to this thread, in my opinion, The most shy

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 24 January 2005 21:01, SR, ESC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and don't bother replying, i've unsubbed from this list. get on with your lives and ignore this if you can't/won't deal with it - i don't want to deal with people that will waste my time for their petty little politics. On

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:02 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Romain Francoise wrote: And Debian wouldn't be fun without a few enmities, we wouldn't have great posts like http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg01308.html or

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around. That usualy only works if you recognise them as females and can lead to quite the oposite as well

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around. That usualy only works if you recognise them as females and can lead to

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Frank Küster
SR, ESC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while i don't appeciate gunnar's comments - seems to me he's just trying to lessening the issue i brought up. Which is what? I didn't read your one or two initial mails that consistent mainly of f-words; besides that I have not read anything you brought up.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:48 +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around. That

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:48:04AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [050125 07:05]: Romain Francoise wrote: And Debian wouldn't be fun without a few enmities, we wouldn't have great posts like http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg01308.html or

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:38:41AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Sadly, those helpful people usually don't make up the reputation of Debian in public. The aggressive DDs do this, IMHO. You might be right. Also posts like this don't help: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:00:35 +0100, Ingo Juergensmann

Debian Developers photo gallery (was: Re: apply to NM? ha!)

2005-01-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Moving to -project, follow up there. Em Ter, 2005-01-25 s 09:30 +, Steve Kemp escreveu: That'd be too much, but I'd love to see a photo field in the db.debian.org database, or some other gallery of developers. That's been proposed before -- even adding it to the /devel/people page has

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:43:32AM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: [snip] 3. If anyone says something to you that is insulting or upsetting or offensive, you are possibly better off just ignoring it than trying to argue with them. Remember 1 :) 3.5. A lot of nuance gets lost when

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Based on comments made to me by a number of women who are interested in contributing more to Debian, the level of agressiveness on some of the mailing lists and IRC channels is a problem. Hmm... after I started wasting time on #debian-devel I have

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00 +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for involvement in Debian. I believe that it *should*

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: I believe that it *should* be a requirement that one has enough calm to most of the time respond to (percieved or actual) aggression and insults in a less aggressive and insulting way than the other party uses. Otherwise the project will surely die (film at 11!) from

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Gergely Nagy writes: Indeed. Even if all of us start to behave ourselves and avoid nasty flamewars (ha! in your dreams! :P), we still have to deal with the occassional bugreporter of Barbaric Communication School For 1337 People (the `f**k you, this piece of s***e doesn't work, go fix it or

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:02 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Gergely Nagy writes: Indeed. Even if all of us start to behave ourselves and avoid nasty flamewars (ha! in your dreams! :P), we still have to deal with the occassional bugreporter of Barbaric Communication School For 1337 People (the

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:36:04AM -0500, SR, ESC wrote: what's the fucking point in applying to NM when you get blasted for asking a simple question about release. and what's the fucking point when you get called luser for asking about it. really getting fucking sick of this crap. you

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: report. The last thing Debian needs is more ignorant assholes. We have way too many as it is, I have to agree... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread SR, ESC
Le lun 2005-01-24 a 04:49:06 -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: report. The last thing Debian needs is more ignorant assholes. vorlon: i've killfiled you. good riddance. We have way too many as it is, I have to agree...

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:01:19AM -0500, SR, ESC wrote: Le lun 2005-01-24 a 04:49:06 -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: report. The last thing Debian needs is more ignorant assholes. vorlon: i've killfiled you. good

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:38:23AM +, Brett Parker wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:01:19AM -0500, SR, ESC wrote: Le lun 2005-01-24 a 04:49:06 -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: report. The last thing Debian

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Brett Parker wrote: Please please *PLEASE* tell me that people like this get through NM... Remember Bruce! /me ponders putting his listmaster hat on and asking simonrvn to apologize the usage of whole years f-word quota in January. --j -- To

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Romain Francoise
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Team player is PHB code for someone who will shut up and do what he is told even though he knows it is wrong. Yes. And Debian wouldn't be fun without a few enmities, we wouldn't have great posts like

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Brett Parker dijo [Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:38:23AM +]: and don't bother replying, i've unsubbed from this list. get on with your lives and ignore this if you can't/won't deal with it - i don't want to deal with people that will waste my time for their petty little politics. Please

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Malte Cornils
Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 00:40 schrieb Gunnar Wolf: [Person with *very* delicate skin quitting NM] I don't know (and don't want to, don't point me to it ;-) ) who advocated a person with such a delicate skin to enter NM. I mean, NM is for people who are _already_ somewhat involved in

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
Malte Cornils wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 00:40 schrieb Gunnar Wolf: [Person with *very* delicate skin quitting NM] I don't know (and don't want to, don't point me to it ;-) ) who advocated a person with such a delicate skin to enter NM. I mean, NM is for people who are _already_ somewhat

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:40:18PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Brett Parker dijo [Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:38:23AM +]: and don't bother replying, i've unsubbed from this list. get on with your lives and ignore this if you can't/won't deal with it - i don't want to deal with people that

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Malte Cornils
Hello, Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 01:26 schrieb Helen Faulkner: Based on comments made to me by a number of women who are interested in contributing more to Debian, the level of agressiveness on some of the mailing lists and IRC channels is a problem. It is preventing people (women and

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:59:59PM -0500, SR, ESC wrote: Le lun 2005-01-24 a 19:26:34 -0500, Helen Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for involvement in

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
SR, ESC wrote: to the people that see it for what it is: thank you, and i knew you would see it (like helen here, and others). OK, I should be clear here. From the point of view of behaviour in Debian lists that is intimidating to newcomers and especially people who are shy or not very

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Helen Faulkner
Malte Cornils wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 01:26 schrieb Helen Faulkner: I often find myself explaining to people how they can avoid attracting the attention of those who are likely to be unpleasant to deal with, and also repeatedly emphasising the fact that, despite some

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Malte Cornils
Hello, On Tuesday, 25. January 2005 02:43, Helen Faulkner wrote: I tend to tell people some mixture of the following, depending on the context: [Rationale for each skipped for quoting brevity] 1. Remember that lots of Debian people are lovely[...] 2. Don't start an interaction with the

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:43:24PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: John Hasler dijo [Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:54:49AM -0600]: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: It's nice of you to send this interesting statement to debian-devel, this way it will be easier for your AM and the DAM to see how you work

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread SR, ESC
good bye. -- Microsoft is to operating systems security what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking. -- unknown; seen in Marc Merlin's .sig signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 22:45 -0500, SR, ESC wrote: good bye. Nice of you to stop in for tea. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
SR, ESC dijo [Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:59:59PM -0500]: while i don't appeciate gunnar's comments - seems to me he's just trying to lessening the issue i brought up. and i do have a thick skin, i just don't see the need to have one if people are going to work together in a cooperative fashion.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Anthony Towns
Romain Francoise wrote: And Debian wouldn't be fun without a few enmities, we wouldn't have great posts like http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg01308.html or http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2001/12/msg8.html... Huh, and here was me thinking those were perfect

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:26:13AM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: Based on comments made to me by a number of women who are interested in contributing more to Debian, the level of agressiveness on some of the mailing lists and IRC channels is a problem. It is preventing people (women and

[OT] observational behavioral studies (was Re: apply to NM? ha!)

2005-01-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:38 +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:26:13AM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: [snip] I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around. Until