Re: New maintainer process (was Re: [Maintainers] SDL.NET package - set of object-oriented CLS-compliant)

[Vincent Danen]

* [2008-05-26 01:13:08 +0200] Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le 26 mai 08 à 00:45, Vincent Danen a écrit :
>
> > * [2008-05-25 23:23:43 +0200] Per ?yvind Karlsen wrote:
> >
> > > På Søndag 25 mai 2008 , 23:10:44 skrev Adam Williamson:
> > > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:53 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > > > > Nothing to do with your question, but could you respect basic 
> > > > netiquette
> > > > > rules ? Aka using a proper name in your mails instead of a pseudo
> > > >
> > > > I don't recall that ever being part of any commonly accepted netiquette
> > > > guide.
> > >
> > > I'd say it's rather implied by common sense regardless of any such 
> > > guide;p
> >
> > Are you guys talking about Pixel?
> >
> > If not, I wouldn't even bother discussing something like that or else
> > our good friend Pixel will have to go by Pascal and no one will know who
> > he is.
> >
> > Or, maybe, we should have had this conversation with Warly?  Or I should
> > tell Solar Designer that some magical netiquette dictates he should be
> > using his real name?
> >
> > Seriously... who cares if someone uses a nickname or pseudonym?  Is it
> > that big of a deal?
>
> esr say so :
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#style
>
> and we all know that eric S raymond is always right :)

No, he doesn't.  He says not to use a silly one.  So unless this guy is
going by the name H/|x0rg0D or some such rot, it's probably ok.  =)

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Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/

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