Hans Bakker wrote: > Adam, > > please do not introduce the Debian fights where you seem to be so proud > of, in this mailing list.
I never said that. I said my experience with Debian in the past has made me able to work better in community projects. And that if people think this is a flamewar, it isn't, I've experienced way worse. > I appreciate your technical involvement but your mailinglist behavior is > not acceptable. You are scaring away any new contributions from new > people. My behaviour? Really? What about David's? Just because David started the project, does not mean that he is right by fiat. Everyone can be wrong at times. I have been extremely nice, and not singling out anyone, until now. Repeat offenders will always get more stern responses. I am only saying what we as a group have agreed with. It's just that people who have been involved with the project for an extended period that can't follow the guidelines that have been discussed and agreed upon that I take exception with. New people by their nature don't know, so we have to be more polite with. Listen, everyone. Very closely. It's not hard to comprehend. I like things consistent. I then mention the reasons why I like things consistent. Others on this list have agreed. And, it just makes sense. Consistent includes all formatting, and it includes not breaking functionality or builds. So, I then go and point out issues with consistency when they occur. Others don't point theses issues out, but that doesn't make them any less valid. For repeat offenders, I will always get more forceful. It doesn't matter who you are, or how much you have done. This is part of my blindness thing; Leaders of the project or various lueitenants Then, for some reason, random other people who are not involved suddenly think I am saying something out of the clear blue; they don't realize that this is a long term sort of issue, that has been discussed with others, and said others have agreed. That I will not accept. If you are a police officer, and you get called to an accident, where a car has run into a wall, killing a woman who was with an unborn child that was riding in the passenger seat, are you going to blame the driver of the vehicle who survied without a scratch? Or, are you going to investigate, and discover that another driver who has left the scene side-swiped the car? Another way to look at this, is that people are only responding to the end result, without knowing(or care to investigate) the root cause. This again, is wrong, period. And yet *I* get blamed for calling someone else out, when the cause is perfectly valid.
