On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
Ionut Biru wrote:
On 03/16/2013 07:13 PM, Xyne wrote:
I appreciate your effort but this stuff should be discussed internally and not publicly.
Usually Aaron takes care about stuff like that and Allan emailed him about it already.
I wasn't expecting a discussion here. I don't have access to any internal dev discussions (afaik) and I wasn't sure whom to notify about this (I haven't seen any activity from Aaron in ages so I don't even know if he is still actively involved). I posted here just to make sure that the right person sees it as "nobody that matters posts on the forum", as the meme goes.
Given that this is already public on the forum and that at least one user has already taken it upon himself to contact Inventive Arts directly, I felt that it was imperative to bring this to the devs' attention asap. I will close the thread for now and discuss what to do with it with the other mods to prevent further community actions while this is handled.
If there is an internal mailing list for devs, TUs, forum admins & mods, wiki admins, IRC ops and anyone else associated in some semi-official capacity with Arch, please let me know. Otherwise please considering creating such a list. The inner workings of the devs remains a black box for most of us outside the inner circle and it is not always clear how best to pass along information and follow internal issues.
I think what you did here was fine, given that it was already out in the open on the forums. We don't have a lot of secret stuff going on in the development circle, so it is always a bit hard to figure out the proper venue to raise these type of concerns. We could easily set up something like trademark-violations@archlinux.org to send along to the appropriate parties, but that only fixes this particular situation and not anything else that falls into the behind closed doors category. -Dan