#36: A complaint about conduct
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Reporter: templarian | Owner: bjensen
Type: feedback | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 13
Version: | Severity: Negative
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by bit4man):
Replying to [comment:2 thomasj]:
There's IMHO too often a general
do-it-the-fedora-way-or-we-will-flame-
you-into-oblivion" behavior in #fedora. Often enough combined with newb-
bashing. The reaction is obviously that people leave and give *Fedora* a
bad reputation, no matter what message their IRC client gets when they
join the channel ([Notice] -ChanServ- [#fedora] "Any advice you read here
is provided by individual community members. You should use it at your OWN
RISK. This advice is owned by each individual, and does NOT represent the
views of Freenode, Fedora or Red Hat. This channel may be logged").
I can only agree with your general notion about being more open when it
comes to discussing issues in #fedora. However, I would like to point out
that the difference between ##linux and ##fedora is that ##fedora talks
about how things are done in Fedora - and ##linux is general talk about
how we solve problems free of a distribution.
So I think it's fine to say "this is not the Fedora way". Maybe talk that
seems to leave the realm of Fedora can be guided over to ##linux or the
distro channel where it belongs to. Politely of course - and with an
explanation. Just because it's not the Fedora way doesn't mean it will not
work - but it's off topic in ##fedora.
Often enough people seem to forget that FOSS isn't just about
freedom of
the PC, but as well the freedom of choice. Even if that choice means it's
not the Fedora way because it's not in our repos or recommended.
There are other channels like ##linux that handles FOSS more generally.
##fedora is there to support the FOSS and philosophy behind Fedora - not
general FOSS.
There's especially no need to be disrespectful of other
developers (by
puking on their product) just because someone is used to something
different.
+10!
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