On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:20:44AM +0200, Tobias Conradi <tobias.conradi@gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/24/2012 03:46 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote: You should I think I should nothing. I do what I want.
consider taking a step backwards and refraining from sending email to the tz list for a while, If you fix all bugs, I will stop emailing.
Just for those who didn't get it (which seem to be too many). The troling pattern that Tobias Conradi employs is very common, and one of the hardest to fight against. What he does is report a large number of non-issues (such as typos or similarly irrelevant "bugs"). Since many of these are actual bugs, it is hard to ignore them for people with a modicum of manners. Yes, some of the issue she brings up are real, but the amount of time wasted on finding out which are, and even the amount of time wasted in fixing trivial issues such as typos is high. (It might help to remember that tobias himself actively and deliberately ignores the most basic rules of netiquette, such as posting private mails even when people asked him no to - it is clear that his intentions are not honest). The problem is that this ties a large amount of resources. Like mine, just from sifting through his mails, and certainly the resources of the people who actually do work on the timezone database. And this list is an almost idela target, because in the decade I am subscribed to it (and probably before that) nothig like that ever happened before. I do admire Paul Eggert (and others) who actually tried to work with him, but the net result of even trying to fix any issues he brings up is very probably negative, because people unsubscribe and most importantly, time is wasted on a large number of issues that are clearly irrelevant. Tobias is simply a timebinder who tries to drag projects down into a mode where they can't do any progress. The only long term solution is to get rid of him (which is difficult, but in the end, must be done), as other projects before have done when dealing with him. He will not stop dragging down everything and everybody in useless discussions. Sorry to add to the problem, this is definitely my only mail pointing this out. -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schmorp@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\