On Tuesday 22 June 2010 11:08:05 Administrator wrote:
""" ... respect for other persons and their contributions, for other opinions and beliefs. """
I would not want to commit to that. openSUSE may consist of fluffy soft people, and thus feels a need for it, but I think that hinders necessary level of criticism expressed like http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/20/218 .
Showing respect for other people allows criticising them. The attitude that "I'm right so I can be rude to people" is the first step on the road of fundamentalism, whose endpoint is that "other people have no value unless they agree with me". Being rude is selfish and lazy - it's always possible to express the criticism which also acknowledges the other person's viewpoint.
Agreed. Criticising is fine, and even very, very welcome when it's in a positive manner: it doesn't mean bashing nor being rude. And, of course, here and then it might happen that some of us (including me) step over the line a bit, and we should also have the necessary understanding and common sense to not jump on it (or threaten to leave, or whatever) when that happens. Everyone can have a bad day. Yet, it's not acceptable to be rude on a repeated basis and as the "normal" way of dealing with people and their opinions. Most, if not pretty much everyone, agree to that. For those who like being rude (again, criticising != rude), I would recommend moving over to another project (dare I say openBSD ? ok, just kidding ;D). cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM::6+7 Feb 2010, Brussels, http://fosdem.org