Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:25:40PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > Anthony Towns <[email protected]> > > > Because we don't want to dishonour your mother, or diminish your loss by > > > reconciling it with Debian's priorities. You've been dealing with more > > > than what anyone could reaosonably expect you to recently -- and normal > > > people would respond to that by just not doing Debian stuff. [...] > > > > I think that was a disgraceful insult. Please retract it. > > Actually, I think the next paragraph (which you happily cut away) made > pretty clear that Anthony was in awe of the amount of work that Sven was > still able to produce under these circumstances. Which is quite the > opposite of an insulte.
FWIW, it was "continuing amazement that you[Sven] have any time to spend on Debian" in the next paragraph, which reads two ways: Sven Luther is superhuman, or he is neglecting his children. Amazement is extreme surprise, after all, and not necessarily approval. At best, I think it's an insult with a weak compliment: a back-handed compliment. Still insulting to most, like calling someone a beautiful freak. Further, as explained in the part of my message "which you happily cut away", the disgrace is the DPL making judgments on a range of personal issues for debian developers, from what is a normal way to handle grief, through how someone's mother should be honoured, to isolating a developer in this way. The DPL should allow DDs their private lives and address this bug in a SMART manner. -- MJR/slef Laux nur mia opinio: vidu http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Bv sekvu http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
