On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:31 -0800, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > Yes. In the past I have found it rather disappointing (and sometimes > funny) how the developers who work on the cores of Apache, nginx and > lighttpd always seem to be making disparaging remarks against each > others products and the benchmarks they each produce. Seems that > Cherokee is going this path as well. As you say, when will people just > learn to get along and rather than criticising other products, learn > from each other and recognise that perhaps the products fulfil > different needs.
I have found that a great number of people in the FLOSS community are simply just blunt. I don't think that most of them intend to be unproductively critical, in fact they are usually trying to be helpful. Using things like lists we are without the benefit of voice inflections, facial expressions and the like. Other times, hobby 'dev time' and beer time happen to fall in the same hours. At last I checked, the results of mixing the two were undefined. I have sent code to Stefan to play with because I expect him to evaluate it and convey his thoughts in a very blunt and direct manner. He's yet to let me down :) Really, though, he's correct in a sense. If someone wanted to actually sit down, implement and maintain it .. it would be a whole new ball park. > In the Python/WSGI world I have also seen the same sort of problem > whereby people regard Apache as evil and as such totally ignore what > Apache has done before. Yes.. there is this strange form of dyslexia that suddenly strikes some people when they attempt to turn off their computer using their thumb. If inflicted, the final location of said thumb is undefined ;) Really, if we expect others to be tolerant .. we must also be tolerant of them appearing intolerant. My next get rich quick idea is to market small glass tubes that contain a single grain of salt .. on them will be printed: IN CASE OF MAILING LISTS OR USENET - BREAK GLASS Cheers! --Tim _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
