From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T00:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: eclipse & subversion

On 7/5/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > It is in my opinion off topic. Ruby is only very tangentially related to
> > > your question, you're are not even asking about ruby plugins for Eclipse,
> > > except in the sense you happen to be using them. I also do not mind the
> > > occasional diversion, but I agree with Gregory Brown, it would be courteous
> > > (and easy!) for you to put an [OT] tag on your subject line (or even a
> > > [Slighty OT]).
> > >
> > I strongly disagree with Gregory's and Logan's POV.
> > We had so much more OT stuff, I feel that this is not OT at all, BTW
> > it does not interest me a tiny little bit, but there is a difference
> > between OT and Does not interest me.
> >
> > Furthermore I do not remember any post of bad form or content by
> > David, if you have an issue with David, maybe you can handle it OL?
>
> Actually, I have no issue at all with David.  I thought that my
> suggestion was a polite one, but I can see how it could be
> misinterpreted.  I'm just thinking that with all the possible editors
> with Ruby modes, maybe we'd end up with way more traffic than we can
> handle if we started fielding a bunch of non-ruby questions.
Good point, but was not clear at all to me.
>
> I mean, the question was about configuring SVN, not about something
> like "matching do/end braces or Ruby syntax coloring".  That to me
> feels like the kind of question that would be much better asked on a
> project's own forums or mailing lists.  It just so happens that Aptana
> has a very active community[0], so all the better.
Yeah you said that but later.
>
> As I mentioned, I have no problem with posts like that here because
> they definitely might be interesting to some of our readers.  But
> they're not on the topic of Ruby.  They're on the topic of how to
> configure a tool that can be used in Ruby development and might be
> used by a minority of our readers here.  That to me is off topic, or
> at least tangental.  Indicating it in the subject line is not a rule,
> just a matter of politeness.  (And an easy thing to do!)
>
> I disappeared for a while because I was having trouble keeping up with
> RubyTalk, but now I'm trying very hard to keep up again.  Small
> courtesies go a long way in helping make the list more easily
> readable.
I agree, and I feel very good about your reply, I just thought that we
- and you included - throw that [OT] thing at anybody, so I felt err a
little sorry for David.

I respect your POV but I still feel that the traffic on this list is
quite ok for that kind of permissiveness, but I will watch out myself
to stay on topic if this opinion is shared.

Most important thing is to openly talk about it, what we did :)
And sorry for the jumped conclusion about the issue, that was a bad
interpretation on my part :(.

Cheers
Robert
-- 
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java.
I just didn't know it would be called Ruby
-- Kent Beck