Amen brother, Now back to work... -David
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:25 am, mark wrote: > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:58, Tobias Gerschner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just came back from my Easter break waving a goodbye to my parents > > before leaving to NZ. So sorry for the late reply. > > > > Can somebody please give me a short summary ? I did see nothing on > > http://ftp.yoper.com > > Maybe Andreas removed it already ? > > > > However, surely Andreas tends to be complicated sometimes (who does > > not) but he surely does not act that way. > > > > And in my opinion there is no use to change the name of the distro ( > > how did this come up ? ) > > > > Ok, crawling recursively through another 120 emails. > > > > regards > > > > > > -- > > Tobias Gerschner > > Member of Board of Yoper Ltd. NZ > > > > Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. > > Hi Tobias, > Quick summary - > > There was a post to the list about a message on the ftp server from > Andreas. A quick discussion took place about it where we decided it was > obviously a left over from a long time ago when Andreas went to Novell. > The message on the ftp server was picked up by Distrowatch - possibly from > the posts on this list at a guess. > Again, the general view was that the message was old - and that Andreas > probably posted it when he left for Novell. The only real problem left was > that Distrowatch had posted it on their site, which, reading their site, > seemed to hint at problems within Yoper between the current devs and > Andreas. As we all know, that is total rubbish! Andreas developed Yoper on > his own for years - and, although he now has paid employment with Novell - > he still takes an interest in what is happening with Yoper. > > Thats the basic idea - doubtless you will catch up on the rest of the posts > later. > I feel it is all a storm in a teacup - an old message from ages ago on the > ftp server, which Andreas posted when he left to work at Novell - not a > rude or derogatory message, just saying bye to Yoper and suggesting people > looked at Slick and OpenSuSE. The whole thing would have not been a > problem until Distrowatch picked it up. > The fact that the message is now gone seems to indicate that Andreas had > forgotten the message and has now removed it anyway. > > As they say on /. all the time - > > "nothing to see here, move along please!" :) > > Yoper is a close community - which is producing a rocking distro - and > there are always going to be little things like that which will appear. > Sometimes people leave messages in files or on servers which perhaps mean > one thing - but, because of the fact that the internet is not a great > medium for explaining the tone of a message, these things do not always > come across well. With Yoper being multi-cultural and multi-country based, > we sometimes see people missing the point of some messages - particularly > those with humour or sarcasm. Each of us has their own style - some are > fairly laid back, others are more direct - and the laid back messages look > like waffle to the direct people and the direct messages look rather stern > to the laid back peeps :) > > I suggest we let the whole issue slide away. Now the message is gone from > the server, lets just forget the whole thing :) > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > yoper-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
