reasonable questions? was: Questions for the candidates
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > > [...] > > Do you believe that developers should be (or are) equally willing to have > > a dialogue with people who provide criticism consisting of suggestions > > of alternatives, discussion of tradeoffs that can and should be made > > and helpful bits of code, or people who accompany their complaints with > > comments like "This FUCKING SUCKS! The maintainer must be incompetent or > > on crack" and requests for dismissal or replacement rather than useful > > assistance? > > If you want to make a point, that's fine, but please don't abuse > debian-vote and "Questions for the candidates" for this, that just > wastes everybody's time. These are no reasonable questions. > Perhaps in your opinion. But I found a number of those questions to be one I would have wanted answered myself -- either in debian-vote or via irc/email. If you have a list of 'reasonable' questions why not just ask them? Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada
Re: reasonable questions? was: Questions for the candidates
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Anthony Towns writes: > > > [...] > > > Do you believe that developers should be (or are) equally willing to have > > > a dialogue with people who provide criticism consisting of suggestions > > > of alternatives, discussion of tradeoffs that can and should be made > > > and helpful bits of code, or people who accompany their complaints with > > > comments like "This FUCKING SUCKS! The maintainer must be incompetent or > > > on crack" and requests for dismissal or replacement rather than useful > > > assistance? > > > > If you want to make a point, that's fine, but please don't abuse > > debian-vote and "Questions for the candidates" for this, that just > > wastes everybody's time. These are no reasonable questions. > > Perhaps in your opinion. But I found a number of those questions to > be one I would have wanted answered myself -- either in debian-vote > or via irc/email. Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. Certainly a few of the questions are reasonable, however most of them are clearly only trying to make a point (like the one above). I didn't mean to imply that the issues mentioned aren't worth discussing. -- Falk
reasonable questions? was: Questions for the candidates
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > Do you believe that developers should be (or are) equally willing to have > > a dialogue with people who provide criticism consisting of suggestions > > of alternatives, discussion of tradeoffs that can and should be made > > and helpful bits of code, or people who accompany their complaints with > > comments like "This FUCKING SUCKS! The maintainer must be incompetent or > > on crack" and requests for dismissal or replacement rather than useful > > assistance? > > If you want to make a point, that's fine, but please don't abuse > debian-vote and "Questions for the candidates" for this, that just > wastes everybody's time. These are no reasonable questions. > Perhaps in your opinion. But I found a number of those questions to be one I would have wanted answered myself -- either in debian-vote or via irc/email. If you have a list of 'reasonable' questions why not just ask them? Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reasonable questions? was: Questions for the candidates
Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > > Do you believe that developers should be (or are) equally willing to have > > > a dialogue with people who provide criticism consisting of suggestions > > > of alternatives, discussion of tradeoffs that can and should be made > > > and helpful bits of code, or people who accompany their complaints with > > > comments like "This FUCKING SUCKS! The maintainer must be incompetent or > > > on crack" and requests for dismissal or replacement rather than useful > > > assistance? > > > > If you want to make a point, that's fine, but please don't abuse > > debian-vote and "Questions for the candidates" for this, that just > > wastes everybody's time. These are no reasonable questions. > > Perhaps in your opinion. But I found a number of those questions to > be one I would have wanted answered myself -- either in debian-vote > or via irc/email. Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. Certainly a few of the questions are reasonable, however most of them are clearly only trying to make a point (like the one above). I didn't mean to imply that the issues mentioned aren't worth discussing. -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
