[pkg-kolab] Kolab Systems (ISV) requirements (was: cyrus-imapd 2.3.16)

Philip Hands phil at hands.com
Fri Sep 3 23:28:24 UTC 2010


On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:11:20 +0200, "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com> wrote:
> Philip Hands wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:49:21 +0200, "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" 
...
> > > sometimes we may need to quickly solve one or the other issue and
> > > can not allow ourselves the risk of being held back by community
> > > distribution policies or access levels our engineers may or may
> > > not have.
...
> > This would not require you to do anything that might be deemed
> > community-hostile.
...
> I would argue that this is an upstream, kolab.org effort, if I were not 
> stunned by your remark that I might do some or the other thing hostile to the 
> community. I am community (see Google).

Oh dear, I think that misunderstanding is probably due to my use of a
double negative.  (not require ... hostile)

Does that work better if I phrase it as something like:

  There are generally ways of achieving this in a community-approved
  way, while still giving you the flexibility you need to do your job.

Sorry for any upset caused by the other version.

Cheers, Phil.
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