Hi list,
sorry to bring this up on the project level and I'm sorry for the 'mostly reading' users like me - to have one mail more in our inboxes, but the behaviour shown by several users over the last days and even before is just annoying me a lot and it might annoy others as well.
We have a netiquette on all of our lists. You can find it here.
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette
There is clearly stated, that a discussion is perfectly fine, but it shouldn't go completely off topic.
Over the past month we had several cases of personal one-vs-one fights on this mailinglist or even one-vs-many. Which does not only show a very unprofessional view of our project to the outside world, but also is clearly off-topic.
It's cool to discuss questions with candidates here and it's cool to discuss general aspects like this one here, which affects the whole project, on this list.
What is not so nice is, if two members end up in a 1-on-1 discussion about nit picking in 10+ mails of each of them. How about a direct conversation and just remove the list from CC then. Remember that with every mail you drop here, you might use someones most valuable thing - time.
If we all just work a little bit on our own attitude how we live this Netiquette and our own rules - it might become a better public forum here and in the end - way less mails to read for everyone. How cool would that one to be achieved?
And without further lines, I'd just like to remember everybody that proper quoting, proper threading and proper formatting is part of the Netiquette. If you see yourself with a bad format or threading on the list, maybe even splitting up a thread unwanted, please check your mail client settings - that would be great.
With all the best wishes.
Stay healthy.
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Thorsten Bro <tbro@opensuse.org>
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