Bug#907199: weboob, Gratuitous sexual references
Dear Ian,
> Chris, what do you think ? I think I have nearly run out of things to
> try that aren't a GR. I'm sure I can get sponsors for a GR, and help
> drafting it.
I sympathise with your viewpoint on the weboob contretemps, but if I may
adopt my attempt at an objective DPL or "Lady Liberty" persona for a
moment, do you not worry you may are jumping too quickly to the hammer
of a General Resolution?
Just as one example from your previous message, you appear to reject
working with upstream constructively on this, despite a solution
involving them being beneficial to the entire free software ecosystem
(not to mention avoiding rehashing a quite tedious and painfully
predictable debate within Debian itself).
You also do not appear to have looped AH in on this, despite them being
almost-certainly having some kind of viewpoint and de facto weight,
if not a de jure one.
As an important aside (and I'd like to underline that I don't really
subscribe to this view myself) it is regrettable that your framing the
idea of a GR at the moment can be interpreted as an ultimatum or — even
more tragically — as a threat.
Mentioning it just in passing when politely asking others to acquiesce
to your viewpoint will invariably raise emotional barriers in recipients'
subconscious and puts them in a "defensive mode" that simply gets in the
way of a productive conversation. Indeed, at worse, some readers may feel
like they are being emotionally blackmailed into agreeing too, which I
highly doubt is your intention.
Putting it another way, whilst drafting a GR is always technically an
option for a Developer to persue, I highly suspect one gets far more
traction, collaboration and "buy-in" with the rest of the Debian
community if one is far less explicit about it.
Best wishes,
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