On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What an intelligent stance to take, this is an open project isn't it? > > it was a bit tongue and cheek and very much a hollow threat meant to > give Les pause to consider what it means to be a constructive > participant in a dialog by providing an illustration as to where being > destructive can lead. If I actually did that, would I still have the > respect of others in the community when I myself put a proposal > forward... extremely doubtful. I haven't work as hard as I have to > move things forward just to burn through my good will to harass one > poisonous person who is a drag on the process. But just thinking > about doing it is a rush I haven't felt since that one year when I > found my Christmas presents early and then unwrapped and rewrapped > them to see what I got. But I don't really have the luxury to be > selfish any longer, wallowing around in my own desires to 'win' > pointless arguments with people. > What Fedora as a community needs to achieve is too important for me to > indulge in petty bickering. But I tell you honestly... Les's inability > to answer my question straight forwardly brings out my desire to > retort with passionate displeasure, as I'm somewhat sure it does to > other people. > > But technically speaking, there's nothing stopping me from being as > irrational as other people on this thread have been, nor is there > anything stopping other people from ignoring me once I decide to go > around making a delibrate effort to be unconstructive. Openness does > not automatically make participants in the process intelligent, > rational, constructive nor honest. These are all personal > characteristics which we as individuals must choose to bring to a > discussion. Nor does openness mandate that everyone be forced to > listen to everyone else with equal weight. We each individually have > to continually earn the respect of others in an open process or else > we lose our seat at the table. Les is on the verge of losing his > unless he makes and effort to rein in the vitriol and hyperbole and > find something constructive to say. > Just checking. : ) Max -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
