[haiku-development] Re: Banning Jorge G. Mare
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 12:53:39 -0700
>
> Emails are very easy to write but very hard to actually "communicate". You can
> never tell the tone of voice of another person, whether he's angry or sad or
> just indifferent. Making these hard decisions (ban/expulsion, name it what you
> want, it's never nice), by email only is faceless. It represents hard people,
> and emotion is not even allowed to get in the picture, when it could allow for
> compromise from either side.
>
> So my suggestion is this: act like mature and responsible people -this goes to
> both sides- get Haiku Inc, to fund some plane tickets so that some people of
> Haiku meet with Jorge -dunno how and where it should be done and what's more
> convenient- and sit down in a table and solve the problems. Write down a list
> of things to discuss and just spend a few hours discussing. Perhaps you will
> find that it's easier to do that in a face to face meeting rather than a
> mailing list. You may agree and find some compromise or not, but in the end
> you will have given it a good shot. If that fails, perhaps a phonecall/video
> conference will be the next best solution.
>
We respect your input. But in this case Jorge has already met most of
the Haiku developers and many contributors in person, he's probably
the one guy involved with the project who has met with the most other
contributors, so we know him outside of just email. We've seen his
good side and sometimes his bad side. Perhaps instead of an outright
ban we put his emails to the mailing lists through a moderator, that
way if/when he goes off on a tangent/rant we are better able to end
the endless email threads dead in their tracks. Chances are if we ban
him, he'd start up some sort of "cynics soapbox".
-scottmc
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