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

Thu Jan 12 23:35:35 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Christian Lohmaier
+<lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+Continuing with your example, yes, you aren't telling them that
+they're ugly, you are telling them that they have bad taste, and for
+some that can be insulting and for others not. You could have made
+your point by saying that *you* don't like that t-shirt because of x
+and y motives and if he had chosen another one with Y characteristics
+would look much better on him.
+
+Do you see the difference on wording ? you are expressing the same
+idea but in a more polite way. The same applies here. Your point about
+the problem in the policy is totally valid and needs to be addressed,
+but the way you expressed it is not, no matter you if you think it
+was. If it was, then no one had felt insulted on the first place ;)
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+