On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:11, Francis Earl wrote:
How is that relevant? You don't believe participants should be required to hold a certain level of professionalism when on official platforms for project communication?
No only do I not believe that, I don't believe it's possible.
Of course it's possible, ...
I meant that it is not possible to _effectively_ require that people maintain some (inherently subjective) standard of civility in a forum that is open to all and which attracts hundreds or thousands of participants.
You're dealing with human beings. Some are nice most of the time. Some are rude most of the time. No one is nice all the time and very few are rude all the time.
I agree, but you should respect everyone you encounter, no matter how much you dislike them or whatever your mood.
Not true. Not everyone deserves respect. It's reasonable to expect a minimal degree of respect from someone you don't know as a kind of default, but over time, an individual either earns respect by their conduct or does not.
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Many people are moving from Debian to Ubuntu due to general mood of the project.
Can you support this claim? It seems foolish to me. I would rather be chastised by someone who knows what they're talking about if I ask questions stupidly than I would hang around with a bunch of people who won't call a spade a spade.
Every Ubuntu user and maintainer/developer is required to fulfill certain behavioral standards everywhere, and I think it's obvious it's really worked for Ubuntu.
But now you're back to talking about principals, not the general user community, which is why I asked you if any openSUSE project participant had offended you. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org