On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:
[SNIP]
The CouchDB project came into the Incubator with a lot of momentum
and
direction, and I consider part of my role with the project, to help
insulate Damien from the mailing-list chatter, especially when he's
deep in code. I acknowledge that could be a mistake as well, if it
leads to community misapprehension.
Seriously? The PMC chair has handlers to keep him isolated from the
community?
Must you be so combative? He's simply saying that other project
members prefer to spend time interacting with the community while I
focus on some deep coding issues. They know if they can handle stuff
there so I don't have to, I can move faster on the coding.
The whole thing started because I closed a bug with a comment that
there must be an _upcoming discussion_.
I sympathize with Antony's predicament. He's been using bulk doc
transactions in a high-pressure environment, and it works for him.
It's understandable that he'd be upset, first hearing about the patch
like this.
Had someone proposed the change on the dev list, let him participate
in a debate about the merits, and the change still happened, there
would be nothing to talk about.
geir
I'll post details of the proposed changes soon. In the meantime, I'm
still figuring it all out. I understand you don't like that I work
that way. But I can't work any other way when it comes to deep coding
issues. The act of coding itself ensures I have a completely solid
understanding of all aspects. I've thrown away on this project 10s of
thousands of lines of codes that I only understood was wrong once I
had begun or finished implementing it. It's how I work and generally,
it works well.
-Damien
