I've been following along with this/these rather ridiculous thread's). No, I am not a committer, so you can hit the delete key now if you judge people by their status.
IMHO, giving someone a -1 is one of the rudest things I have seen on this list in quite a while. What is most surprising to me, is how you stuck to your ignorant opinion, even after so many others were willing to vote them in. I have no plans in the future to become a Tomcat committer, however, I do have my sights set on the Struts project. I sincerely hope that there are no committers there who share your view on 'how to keep yourself important by keeping others out'. I have seen this characteristic before in a few people, of whom shall remain nameless, but they know who they are. James Mitchell > -----Original Message----- > From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 10:52 AM > To: Jakarta General List > Cc: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Vicious Abuse? > > > "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .. and thankful that people like Costin persevere in spite of rather > > vicious abuse. > > Vicious abuse? All I am proposing is to add greater flexibility to the > freedom of those who are involved with the Jakarta project. > > All I'm proposing is to accept the idea that we might have coders > who don't > care about new projects or PMCs, they just want their code done, > or that we > might have important resources out there who might want to get > involved with > this project but cannot be tied to one particular code base? > > Is it a vicious abuse to ask Sally to become an ASF member ALTHOUGH she > doesnąt know how to code in C or Java, or Perl, and doesn't even know what > CVS is all about? > > Is it a vicious abuse to ask to free this community from a concept like > "meritocracy as the number of lines of code you put into CVS"? > > I don't think so, because if this community believes that "freedom" is a > vicious abuse, this community is racist, racist towards those who can't or > don't want to have to deal with CVS, no more and no less as one could be > racist on the color of your skin, or the ideas that populate your mind... > > Pier (really, really worried) > > -- > [Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion > of different > sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the > power of C with > the readability of PostScript. [Jamie Zawinski - DNA Lounge - San > Francisco] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
