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

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Thu Nov 3 07:18:39 UTC 2005


On 02/11/05 at 23:51 +0000, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> 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?
 
Ok, but is "This is harming[...] both systems." really necessary ? This
seems also quite rude to me.

I'll commit your proposal.
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