On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 08:04, phanisvara das
personally i'm mildly amused by these ongoing and repeated flame-wars being fought on a mailing list that's meant to get actual work done. i do understand that others, serious contributors & board members, get upset though.
you know, it always takes at least two to have a fight, on- or offline. i can understand how somebody, being in an unpleasant frame of mind for whatever reason, posts some polemic message, feeling just a little bit better in his misery for a moment. what i don't understand is why _always_ those of the opposing camp (whichever) feel it necessary to repute every silly little statement with tons of arguments that have been made, cited, and chewed over thousands of times.
if somebody posts nonsense that's got nothing to do with any technical or otherwise relevant topics, just keep quiet, and s/he will go away.
What do you say though when someone posts: "I can't use A because A is broken. I say A is broken because it can't do B, and every time I try to do C I get bugs 1, 2, and 3." and then you go read bugs 1, 2, and 3 and test action B and discover that B is completely possible and bug 1 is a local configuration issue, while bugs 2 and 3 look to be real issues. Do you say nothing about B and bug 1? hoping that the user "goes away"? or do you try to show the user that B is actually possible if they actually used A. Anyway, someone from the board is annoyed with the discussion and wants it stopped.... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org