[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

Thu Jan 12 21:25:51 CET 2012

Hi Florian,
+
+On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> Am 12.01.2012 19:01, schrieb Christian Lohmaier:
+>>> [..]
+> PS: Maybe next time you could improve on your wording, the policy may
+> currently be incorrect, not reflecting good packaging practices, but as it's
+> only a policy written by humans, it's not dumb. Just a hint. ;)
+
+No, I disagree. The policy as written is dumb in my opinion. But that
+doesn't mean I consider the people who edited the wiki to be dumb.
+That is a huge difference in my opinion. If I tell someone "Ugh,
+that's an ugly shirt you're wearing today" it is not the same as
+telling the person "you are ugly" - but people on this list do get it
+that way.
+
+If you publish a policy, and the policy is incorrect, the whole
+process of using policies is worthless. So I /have/ to assume that the
+policy reflects the decisions/conclusions from the discussions by
+people running the project.
+To me it stays a silly/stupid policy. Whether you like the word or
+not. It is not picking about typos or bad grammar or anything. It is
+the fundamental approach reflected by the policy that I consider so
+wrong that in my eyes it is stupid (and reason enough not to consider
+officially packing stuff for Mageia).
+I for myself prefer that people state what they really think, instead
+of being sarcastic or trying to be smart in other ways (what point is
+Johnny trying to make with his "hear, hear" for example?) . This just
+doesn't work when you don't have other info than the text on your
+screen (no facial expression, no tone of voice, ~no background
+knowledge on the person making the statement).
+
+It might be my lack of understanding the English language, but
+"stupid" just is a regular word - it is not like I'd be using
+something like "moth.*ker" here. Also my thesaurus only lists words
+that I consider more harsh (like retarded, brainless,...).
+
+So once again sorry if that did offend some people, feel free to
+suggest (via pm, no need to continue this on the list) a wording that
+still carries the same meaning, but is less "insulting".
+
+ciao
+Christian
+