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I'm working on the Fedora 23 release announcement right now, and this really hit home. Rather than going out, finding things our users are having trouble with, and coming back with "There! We fixed it for you!", we're working on "The widget set number has been incremented. There are fewer bugs in most of the things, while others have new bugs. Some of the parts have been moved to better places."
-- Matthew Miller

Let's note anyway that one can slip to the bottom without being vulgar or insulting. In any large project like Debian, one can find people who know how to be very oppressive, while keeping a very “correct” communication style. Debian is a broad project, and it is easy to avoid them, unless one tries make contributions that can be related to keywords like “committee”, “code”, “policy”, “delegation”, etc. In that case, it is better to retrieve the good old thick skin from the cupboard where we stored it after our code of conduct was adopted...
-- Charles Plessy

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Posted Oct 23, 2015 8:44 UTC (Fri) by sam.thursfield (subscriber, #94496) [Link]

Plessy's post sounds a lot better in French! http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/pente-g...

I also completely agree with his point that, while a code of conduct is useful, it just one tool in the war against people being really horrible to each other, and that is not a war that will ever end

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Posted Oct 24, 2015 16:21 UTC (Sat) by mattrose (guest, #19610) [Link] (1 responses)

as much as I appreciate mattdm's sentiment, Fedora's User Problems have been glaringly obvious for years, but when you try to tell anyone involved in their organizations, all you get is excuses as to why they can't fix that problem.

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Posted Oct 24, 2015 21:46 UTC (Sat) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

Don't confuse the community with Red Hat and it's employees, The former is powerless in changing what need changing due to the latter.


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