[kde-community] Statement of support for our devs?

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org>wrote:

> Martin has written repeatedly he thinks he is going through abusive
> behaviour and baseless claims. And it is not pointed only to him but
> to a KDE project (KWin specifically, but KDE SC as a whole for
> supporting Windows and not Mir)
>
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10/thoughts-about-the-open-source-tea-party/
>
> And we are going to just keep hacking on our projects and do nothing?
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I think this post by Mark Shuttleworth (
> >> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295 ) deserves some kind of
> >> formal statement of support for our devs.
> >> It is an unequal statement, and it was a personal attack on one of
> >> KDEprojects because we made a decision based on technical grounds they
> >> don't like.
> >> I don't want an answer to Mark, but a very firm statement that KDE
> >> makes decision based on technical reasons and not some ideological
> >> stance would be great. And that KDE (the community) stands behind
> >> every project.
> >>
> >> We know the kind of pressure that developers can go through, and
> >> support from the rest of the community would be nice.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Alvaro
> >>
> >> PS. Someone going behind scenes and asking Mark to tone down his posts
> >> would be fine too, but the cat is out of the bag and a public balanced
> >> but firm statement is needed.
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> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I think that the best way to show that we're on the right track is by
> > supporting our fellow members development and by doing actual work.
> >
> > Playing politics is dangerous and this subject has definitely grown too
> much
> > from my point of view.
> >
> > Keep calm and happy hacking!
> > Aleix
> >
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I don't think that hacking is doing nothing.
In fact, I have the impression that it's the reason why at least a big
number of us we're here. To make sure that technology happens how we think
it has to happen, no big words but precise actions.

Aleix
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