Re: Misconduct of GTK+/glib Bugtracker Admins

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

This is probably ill-advised, but what they hey?

Having read through your transcript, what I see is three developers 
trying to deal with an initially-vague bug about non-standard use 
reported against the incorrect component.  Not only do they get that 
straightened out, but Emmanuele Bassi offers to review patches for a 
project that isn't his.

For this offer of help, you assert he is a liar ("Actually, you're 
being absolutely inaccurate."), an idiot ("Perhaps you should review 
what a dependency is."), and part of a conspiracy ("Red Hat has done 
everything in their power to break that separation and create a 
monolithic stack").

Andre Klapper hides this unproductive comment, and Emmanuele commits 
the heinous sin of not immediately realizing that this happened.  (But 
sure, call him a liar about that, too.)  You storm off in a huff; 
meanwhile, Psy[H[] continues an apparently-productive technical 
discussion of how to actually solve the bug.  This suggests that, 
perhaps, the problem wasn't with Messrs. Bassi, Blasen, and Klapper.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:44 PM, IgnorantGuru 
<ignorantguru openmailbox org> wrote:
> Specially, their conduct administering the GTK+ bugtracker in the case
> of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750182 is
> unacceptable.  They are closing bugs preemptively,

No, they closed a bug reported against the wrong component, and shortly 
thereafter reopened it against the correct component.

> and are using the
> code of conduct to threaten people who discuss the history and the
> background of a bug.  They threaten a user with the code of conduct 
> for
> using the word "overengineered" to justify their choice not to use
> systemd.

No, they ask Psy[H[] to stop editorializing ("Please, refrain from 
making comments like these in the future."), and Psy[H[] does without 
complaint.

> They claim personal attacks when no one was even referred to
> personally,

Other than those I document above?

>  and they themselves state that people are "not really
> cool" (Emmanuele Bassi).

a) No, Emmanuele says that your behavior is "not really cool".  There's 
a subtle but important difference.
b) You're insulted that someone thinks you're only sorta cool?  Really?

>   They make false technical statements then
> delete any corrections offered in comments.

OmegaPhil repeated the "technical" parts of your hidden posts, and that 
has not been deleted.

While these developers' response may not have been absolutely perfect, 
it's a damn sight better job than I would have done in their place.

Robert