On 4 May 2016 at 11:23, David Henningsson <diwic at ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 2016-05-04 06:49, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> >> Raymond produces too many irrelevant comments and seems not to understand >> what he is talking about or what was already debugged. May I request a ban >> in order to increase our signal-to-noise ratio? >> > > First; I think it's inappropriate to ask this 1) in a public forum and 2) > without involving Raymond in the conversation. Strongly agree. > But since you asked in public, I'm inclined to answer in public. I've seen a > lot of Raymond's comments over the years both here and in the Ubuntu bug > tracker, sometimes he's spot on and very helpful, and sometimes he's > discussing things that are irrelevant to the bug, which can be confusing. > Maybe we have a tendency to notice the latter but not the former? Again, very true. Raymond has been extremely helpful on several occasions and he's clearly well-versed with a lot of things HDA-related and otherwise. > But it also strikes me that we've been talking about Raymond rather than to > Raymond, and I'd like to change that - better late than never. > > So, Raymond, > > Hi! Would you like to introduce yourself a bit? Tell us where you're from, > what your motivations are, and how we can help you to focus on solving what > the bug is about, rather than getting side tracked on other potential > issues? (and hi from me too :)) -- Arun