RE: [PHP-DEV] Etiquette

Yep I completely agree. Although PHP is a volunteers project, the development team represent the project, and should therefore try and be as professional as possible (in the many things that encompasses). > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Bergmann > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:38 PM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Etiquette > > For quite some time now I have noticed an increased rudeness > and impoliteness from some few developers working on PHP, > both on this mailinglist and on IRC. > > Other Open Source projects, like Gentoo Linux [1], for > instance, have a policy for how their developers should > interact. For example: > > "One should try to not be rude, abusive or impolite under any > circumstances. Sometimes, just one sarcastic comment can change the > tone to the reader. If you think you might give somebody a bad as a > result of your comment, and if you really need to say it, make sure > people understand that you are not trying to be offensive. > > Please remember that you are an official representative of > Gentoo. In > this capacity, you are expected to maintain a certain level of > professionalism and courtesy in your day-to-day interactions with > users and other developers." > > The straw that breaks the camel's back and made me write > this email today is the fact that I was being called a > "lowlife" by Edin on IRC because I informed Stefan about > Edin's outbursts in his direction on IRC earlier ("sesser > needs to be taken out back and shot", "he is a mega ego > maniac and a prick in general"). > > While I do not think that Stefan's behaviour is perfect, > either, I deem remarks like these intolerable and I think > the person that is being talked about (in its absence) has a > right to know, which is why I gave Stefan a copy&paste from > my IRC logfile. > > I wish everyone involved in the development of PHP would be > able to discuss technical issues in a professional manner > without getting offensive and personal. > > Please do not turn this thread into yet another flamewar, Sebastian > > -- > [1] > > http://gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=2 > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann > http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 > C514 B85B 5D69 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >