[aur-general] About bullying in our community (Was: TU Application)

[Adam Levy]

I think that is the most fair assessment of the situation that I have read
today.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 1:48 PM Connor Behan via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2018-10-30 01:23 PM, Adam Levy via aur-general wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 1:06 PM Daniel Capella <polycitizen at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:02 PM Adam Levy
> >> <theadamlevy+archlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Being curt and direct is against the code of conduct?
> >>>
> >>> It seems to me that these three rules in particular are relevant in
> this
> >>> case and were not respected: "Respect other users", "Do not flame" and
> "Be responsible".
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best,
> >> polyzen
> >>
> > The only rule there that strikes me as potentially having been violated
> is
> > "respect other users". But I think that cuts both ways in this case to be
> > perfectly honest. It could be argued that Konstantin did not respect the
> > existing TUs initial responses to his questions. But that's debatable.
> >
> > The main point that I am interested in making is that this initial claim
> of
> > bullying and violent communication was overblown and inaccurate.
>
> Hot-button words like "bullying" and "violence" are being used as a
> rhetorical crutch.
>
> However, I think the initial accusation of "whining" and telling
> "bald-faced lies" was also inappropriate. An average AUR packager might
> not realize that TUs routinely take over packages made by others and
> move them to [community]. Claiming that a package "is broken" instead of
> "causes orphan dependencies" also sounds like an honest mistake. And I
> can't blame a user for not knowing enough about the bug wrangler's
> workflow to tell which mailing list actions will make a difference.
>
> In theory, this can be resolved with an RTFM. But when this realization
> means that one will have to completely change his approach to developing
> and packaging software for a larger community, some frustration is
> understandable.
>
>