Hi Glen,

as a last resort this may be a way to go. My advice is to fire a warning shot before sending to the list. If someone is harrassing you off list then a correct way of handling this is sending him a mail that you do not want to communicate with him off list and that you will forward any future rude mail to the list. Then he can not expect that any further communication is private.

What do you think?

I do not want to judge what happened between Jeff and you as I do not know all the details. So I can only ask both of you to try to bring this back to a normal level.

Christian

Am 27.02.2011 08:31, schrieb Glen Mazza:
Folks, if Jeff Genender--or anyone else--is sending any other committers hateful or harrassing emails behind-the-scenes like what I got below from him on Friday, feel free to forward the email directly to the cxf-dev list for all to see. No committer has the right to be harrassing other committers behind-the-scenes and insisting on anonymity while doing so.

Further, all charges made behind-the-scenes by Jeff to another committer can be taken to the dev list, *if* desired by the person receiving the charge, in order to properly air out and defend himself against the charge, possibly with the help of other team members. Contrary to what Jeff is implying below, you are always most welcome to go public on charges made privately against you if doing so helps you defend yourself against the charge. You do not need Jeff's permission to go public on charges he decides to press against you privately.

Finally, contrary to how he may arrogantly act, Jeff is a mostly inactive committer on the CXF project, and has no special ranking or standing on the team compared to any other CXF committer. His ASF membership does not grant him additional powers to be judging people behind the scenes or to magically strip people of their committership. Do not be cowed by his threats, whether implicit or direct, as I received from him below.

Regards,
Glen

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