Thanks you guys for starting to work together again. From my month or two here on ant-dev, I have a feeling that you all have more than enough talent to earn each others' respect, given the chance.
That's why I think this meeting is counter-productive. Ant needs a cooling off period, where people don't feel excluded. > > The message you are sending out is "If you aren't part of the > posse in the SF > > area, you can't help direct the future of Ant." > > THAT IS EXACTLY THE MESSAGE I WAS TRYING TO NOT SAY! > > People please don't read between the lines so much. This is not the goal of a meeting, but it will be the effect. You say the intent of the meeting is "to be able to report to the Ant-Dev list a consensus about the general direction we should take to move things further." Whether this is a final decision or not, it is still highly exclusionary, if many of the main contributors can't afford to be there. A face-to-face meeting might be more productive, but if it's more divisive, it doesn't seem worth it. Alex
