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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Goal of the wise men council (Was: Re: Abusive copyright removal)
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-01 11:55:13
Message-ID: z2x5847e5cf1004010455zafdccc85h333bbd89ad9978bd () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Cyrille Berger <cberger@cberger.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> Ok.  But then we do have a big problem, since this sort of dicussion
>> demotivates a lot of people and is very improductive, not to say un-fun.
> I do agree (and I think everybody does) but it is extremely difficult to solve,
> and I don't think a council can do it. What we need is clear policy that would
> avoid such problem on:
>
> * when it is ok to remove/add a copyright line
> * when code should be committed with(out) review
> * what to do with review that have received no attention (we currently have a
> couple patches on review by external contributors that have not receive any
> review or no final approving/disapproving after several weeks, all hope is not
> lost since at least one of them has submited a gsoc proposal ;) )
>
> And we also need that everybody takes on themselves to not respond to what
> they perceive is a personal attack, it can only goes worse by answering. And
> if there is an obvious attack, let someone else step in and say the red line
> has been crossed (or ask someone else opinion).

Exactly. If you feel you're attacked, DON'T reply to the mailinglist
but contact the person directly. He/she can then rectify the situation
if you both agree it can be read as an insult if it wasn't meant that
way.

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