I've been informed by private email that I am "terribly rude" for making announcements of MinTC releases on the tomcat-dev list, and that I should not make any futher announcements.
So that's it then? I've been kicked off tomcat-dev (how does that work on an open source project!?) because I've offended someone by writing code they don't like!?!? This is a bit of a problem for me, as MinTC is, technically, a version of Catalina, and should be a perfectly appropriate topic for tomcat-dev. Especially when it's one message every few weeks. MinTC is certainly not a mainline version of Tomcat 4, but it shares a significant amount of (unforked) code, and that makes it important to seek a close relationship with the people maintaining the codebase. It's a bit like sharing a telephone booth with an 800 lb gorilla: it's a bit much to hope to have any influence over what phone calls are made, but at least you can hope to make your presence know so that you don't get sat on. It's a dilemma: there's no point in having an antagonistic relationship with the core Tomcat developers, that's worse than nothing. But good grief! This is an opensource project! MinTC is a version of Catalina, where the heck else am I going to discuss it? I'm contributing bug fixes and code back to the core implementation, I'm helping to clean up the core interfaces, I'm using the Catalina code, I'm doing documentation work, but I'm not welcome? That seems so strange, and so sad. I'd like to get some feedback from someone other than the person who wrote me privately. Craig? Could you give me an opinion please? You seem to have the moral leadership role here. Anybody else, please chime in. I'm horrified that I might have been being unknowingly rude, but I'm at a loss to explain how exactly I've caused such awful offense. I honestly don't get it. Thanks, and please, as you think about your response, keep in mind that the Catalina proposal docs specifically talk about people doing exactly what MinTC does under the Catalina umbrella. Thanks, and sorry for any inadvertant rudeness, -cks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
