A DM/DD should know how to watch his mouth (code of conduct).

I'm just a Debian user for some years and I'm writing to this list
because I found that at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugf0814 the Debian
Multimedia maintainer Fabian Greffrath was very wrong, by being not
only wrong in what he said but also very impolite.
I wrote to a follow-up of that bug report (
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugf0924 ) about what I
thought of it:
"Fabian, who do you think you are to call d-m-o's packages as 'crappy'?
d-m-o is a traditional and very respected 3rd party repository for
Debian and has been for years.
I can't tell the same of you.

Le dimanche 4 mars 2012 22:55:46, Russ Allbery a écrit :

Er... the first person to use the word "crappy" in that entire bug
discussion is, um, you. Usually when you put quote marks around things
that's supposed to indicate that it's a quote.

You probably missed [1] then.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...ugf0814#10

Sergio Cipolla writes:
> I'm just a Debian user for some years and I'm writing to this list
> because I found that at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...bug=660814 the Debian
> Multimedia maintainer Fabian Greffrath was very wrong, by being not
> only wrong in what he said but also very impolite.
> I wrote to a follow-up of that bug report (
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...bug=660924 ) about what I
> thought of it:
> "Fabian, who do you think you are to call d-m-o's packages as 'crappy'?
> d-m-o is a traditional and very respected 3rd party repository for
> Debian and has been for years.
> I can't tell the same of you.

Er... the first person to use the word "crappy" in that entire bug
discussion is, um, you. Usually when you put quote marks around things
that's supposed to indicate that it's a quote.

That whole bug discussion is rather frustrating due to a collection of
misunderstandings and misconceptions that weren't made easier by a very
aggressive bug reporter, but it looks like it mostly got sorted out. I'm
not seeing, in that thread, what you're upset about; Fabian could have
probably phrased a few things better, but he de-escalated a
confrontational bug report reasonably well.

Hello.
I'm just a Debian user for some years and I'm writing to this list
because I found that at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugf0814 the Debian
Multimedia maintainer Fabian Greffrath was very wrong, by being not
only wrong in what he said but also very impolite.

I wrote to a follow-up of that bug report (
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugf0924 ) about what I
thought of it:
"Fabian, who do you think you are to call d-m-o's packages as 'crappy'?
d-m-o is a traditional and very respected 3rd party repository for
Debian and has been for years.

I can't tell the same of you.

You know very well why it uses an epoch in their versioning: exactly
so as people that want/need to use the extra features/packages it
provides don't mix what shouldn't be mixed with the official Debian
packages.

I'm not sure if you're a Debian Maintainer or not (or worse, Debian
Developer) but this kind of big mouthing shouldn't be accepted from a
DM/DD.
If I find out the proper channel for this I'll raise this subject so
as the Debian contributors know that they should measure their words
otherwise they should step down (even a 'do-ocracy' has its limits)."
So I'm writing to this list to raise this subject that a DM/DD should
stand to a minimum level of respect, specially when talking about
fellow contributors (even unofficial).
Maybe this is already in some sort of code-of-conduct for someone
applying for DM but if it's not, I leave here my suggestion.

"Fabian, who do you think you are to call d-m-o's packages as 'crappy'?
d-m-o is a traditional and very respected 3rd party repository for
Debian and has been for years.