Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Dec 4 17:39:03 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 11:06 +0100, Karel Volný wrote:
> Dne Po 3. prosince 2012 23:47:14, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> > This gets into a very general discussion, but there is a fairly solid
> > case to be made that excessively aggressive behaviour on mailing lists
> > doesn't just discourage those it's aimed at,
> 
> I wish it had worked ... discouraging developers that do things that users do 
> not like would be a good thing ;-) but sometimes I've got the opposite feeling 
> - the more criticism, the more "yes, I must be doing that right, they burnt 
> Giordano Bruno on the stake for the truth, now they are trying to burn me"

That's, er, a) completely unsubstantiated and b) not what I said.
'Doesn't just discourage X but Y' means 'it discourages both X and Y'.
It doesn't mean 'it discourages Y but not X'.

> > but a substantial number of potential contributors who do not feel
> > comfortable jumping into such an environment.
> 
> hm, and would they feel comfortable jumping to an environment where they hear 
> "go away we don't want you"?
> 
> shouldn't the reaction be more like "please keep your swearing at home" than 
> "go away, don't test Fedora"?

Ideally, for sure. But what if someone refuses to change their
communication style?
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