On Jun 22, 2008, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maybe you could spend more time on compiler design and optimisation than > evangelism? This is really wearing a bit thin with hundreds of emails > with the same tune to this mailing list. If you'd read them, you'd know this was already discussed, and it was pointed out by other developers that the discussion was relevant. You'd also know that we've covered several different topics, starting with one that is hardly off-topic, sticking to some that definitely are, while a few others were indeed better suited for legal, and others for which there's no better-suited list. Now, since you have clearly not read the messages you're complaining about, why are you even annoyed by them? Was it too hard to just delete them? Do you find the topic particularly disturbing or welcome, or is it just so annoying to delete this particular thread with a few messages a day from among the other hundreds of messages that read this list daily? Since this is the list where policies are debated, meetings are called, etc, framing the discussion as unwelcome would almost make it sound like software freedom is not welcome in Fedora. I realize it's (unfortunately) not consensus, but I'd hardly believe it's not something a lot of Fedora developers care about. Besides, it's kind of silly to wait for the end of the thread to only then complain about it. Odds are it would result in prologing a dying discussion, which is precisely what you didn't want. And then, "shut up or I'll leave" is quite tempting. If you don't want to participate, just don't. There's no point in going "gimme what I want or I won't play with you any more"; it sounds as terrifying as similar threats from my four year old, even though I'm sure you didn't quite mean it that way. Heh. Take care, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
