Autorun is VERY bad
Loïc Grenié
loic.grenie at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 22:18:38 UTC 2011
2011/2/8 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:38 AM, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> :
>>
>> No, not at all. Ubuntu is a *community* project. People with
>> '@ubuntu.com' are formal members of the Ubuntu Community -- they
>> have being quizzed about their contributions, and the Ubuntu
>> Community (via one of the regional councils, or via the governance
>> councils) has approved them as Ubuntu Community members. By the way,
>> this is a public process (see [1] for more details), and the logs
>> are also publicly available.
>>
>> It also happens that one critical piece of being a member is
>> accepting, and abiding by, the CoC.
>>
>
> I hadn't intended to set off a firestorm on this subject or the issue
> of civility, but my abrupt response of "RTFM" was improper and I
> apologize to the list for that.
>
> I have signed the CoC and goofed by not adhering to it - I could just
> as easily have posted an abrupt "Nautilus->Help" or something slightly
> longer and more polite, but I didn't.
>
> I have seen three (I think) posters to this list now who *routinely*
> cross-post the exact same questions to other OS lists (where I also
> lurk under a different email id) when the questions they are asking
> are not, strictly speaking, Ubuntu-centered (or even Linux-centered)
> questions. I let my irritation with this produce the answer rather
> than thinking it through one second (or less) longer.
>
> Thank you all for the input and food for thought, and to C especially
> for the link on Ubuntu Community membership, which I had not read in a
> while.
>
> Let's move on....
*That* is a nice message.
I hope anybody else will apologise to you. I apologise for my own very
short and not very nice answer.
Friendly,
Loïc
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