[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] Common Position on RubyGems

[Esteban Manchado Velázquez]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:27:44AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've slightly rewritten the common position on rubygems[1]. My plan is
> to seek approval first from pkg-ruby-extras members, then from
> debian-ruby members, and then go public with it.
> 
> Do you see things to add/change/remove ?

    I, for one, don't like the next paragraph:

"Rubygems developers have been (quite) difficult to deal with, and seem to have
some griefs against Debian and GNU/Linux in general. They are not willing to
make changes to RubyGems to make it easier to convert gems to Debian or RPM
packages."

It's not exactly the position, yes, but I don't like it :-)

    It sounds rude to me. The "They are not willing to make changes..." seems
to be particularly unnecessary, it sound to me like "it's their fault, not
ours". I would prefer something along these lines:

"Some RubyGems developers have been (quite) difficult to deal with, and seem
to have some griefs against Debian and GNU/Linux in general. They seem to not
be willing to make changes to RubyGems to make it easier to convert gems to
Debian or RPM packages. This is harming the communication between Debian and
the RubyGems developers as a whole, as well as between both systems."

    What do you think?

-- 
Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso at foton.es> - http://www.foton.es
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