im really surprised by: 1. the attitude of "hey, i got my what i wanted, i dont mind some abuse along with it." what? honestly? i agree with the "be helpful, be nice, or be quiet" and dont think its fair to bend the rules.
2. tap-dancing around Magus- because he's the most helpful if Magus- is, in fact, the best resource in the channel (i dont dispute that he is), i would think he would hold himself or be held to a higher standard as a pillar of the community. On Feb 4, 12:05 am, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 04 Feb 2009 11:31:28 am Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > > > there was a long flame war about this on the developer list some time > > > back. The general consensus is that Magus- is perhaps the most valuable > > > person on the channel and most of us do not mind being 'insulted' as long > > > as he solves our problems - and he does. In fact someone did a grep on > > > 'Magus-' + 'thank you' and found a zillion matches. > > > Kenneth - Please be _very_ careful about representing "the general > > consensus" of Django Developers. Just because a discussion happens on > > Django Developers, doesn't mean it's "official Django policy". You're > > not a core developer > > sorry - I did not really mean that the developers had a consensus - if what I > said implied that, it is wrong. Perhaps I could change that to: 'Most of the > people on the thread were of the opinion I expressed above'. I am neither a > core developer nor a developer at all as far as django is concerned - so any > opinion I have expressed is purely my personal opinion and my personal > reading of the discussion. > > -- > regards > KGhttp://lawgon.livejournal.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
