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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: AW: www
From:       Daniel Stone <daniel () fooishbar ! org>
Date:       2003-08-28 6:21:09
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On Wednesday August 27, 2003 2:53pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Wednesday August 27, 2003 7:05 am, cullmann@babylon2k.de wrote:
> > 2.
> > late in the night there were some discussion about the changes between
> > me and
> > rob, which were not very productive, as I won't switch the page back
> > just
> >
> > because rob dislikes it (as he is neither maintainer of any kde.org
> > subdomain or something like this) and I have seen noone of the
> > coredevelopers (which are nearly all here around) objecting. rob gotten
> > fast personal (look at http://capzilla.net/blog/ for that, shouldn't be
> > the way people talk to each other if they are even in the same e.V. :( )
> > and quotes me complete out of context. I said this "50% sentences" for
> > real, but he was speaking there about some kind of poll on kde-www@list
> > which makes nearly no sense, as there are much more people subscribed
> > that don't care about our webpage at all than maintainer.
> >
> > 3.
> > I see only one fault in my behaviour: me missed to contact the other 2
> > kde.org maintainers, that wasn't that nice I guess and there should have
> > been some CC in the commit to core-devel at least I guess. But as far I
> > got no "that was wrong" mail from the other maintainers, and therefor
> > can't see a that big problem with that (rainer, jason, if you complained
> > but I am too stupid to find the mail in my crappy webmail interface,
> > sorry, than please resend it to kde-www)
> 
> I could say pretty much the same about my commits to my apps.  In fact, my 
> commits are infinitely less disruptive than Mr. Cullmann's:  Mine add two 
> lines to the Credits page of four about boxes.  They affect not one bit 
> the operation of any functionality, or even intrude on the use of the 
> applications.  Mr. Cullmann's commit to kde-www is designed as a 
> disruption of the www.kde.org service.
> 
> Rob is right.  This isn't about patents.  This is about KDE policy.  Is KDE 
> going to have a policy of maintainer choice, a policy of political 
> neutrality, or what?

No, Neil, KDE just has a policy of not being stupid.

o/~ common sense, simple common sense[0]

It's the same reason I expect not to have to tell you to not jump on the tracks
every time you catch a train, yeah?

-d; CCs to me, I'm not subscribed. if it's just a waste of time, feel free to
not CC me, however.

[0]: Ironically, the lyrics immediately preceeding this are:
'Geezers need excitement/if their life doesn't provide it, they incite violence'

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel@fooishbar.org>
http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org
"Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement"
  -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list

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