This email stuck with me overnight, and I want to address why. ermouth,
your attitude in this email was poor, and I'd like to give you the
opportunity to revise it.
On 2020-08-26 6:45 p.m., ermouth wrote:
The blog is controlled by the CouchDB PMC. No one outside of the PMC or
who they authorize has access to it.
This is about wordpress server where the blog lives.
Why didn't you bring this up sooner? Why wait until now? This doesn't
give anyone the chance to address your concerns, and furthermore, comes
across as arguing in bad faith.
The server is
maintained so impressively,
Actually, it is. It's hosted at wordpress.org. I would expect them to do
the absolute best job of hosting WordPress, wouldn't you?
that shows default wordpress favicon for years
Because it's run at wordpress.com. So what? I don't actually know if we
can customize the favicon there, but honestly, given they provide the
service to us for free, I have zero objections to them using the favicon
as a teeny tiny bit of advertising for another open source project.
How is the presence or absence of a favicon any indication of whether or
not the server is being managed well? This is arguing in bad faith.
and responds with x-hacker header, promoting jobs aggregator.
For the company that provides us with free blog hosting.
The same thing is over at docs.couchdb.org for readthedocs.org, and no
one's ever complained about that - arguably, that site gets more clicks
than the blog does.
It implies an
obvious question about how reliable is the server in terms of injections
and logs protection.
Now that you know the above, do you still want to make this argument?
Also the blog pings gravatar, not good.
For its own content, yes. And I get that you don't want to leak the IP
address of standalone CouchDBs - that is a valid concern, to which two
options have been proposed. The absolute best way you could *HELP*
address this is to code a fix.
If you don't want to display it, don't click on it, and the iframe won't
This is not how things are protected, and I know that you know about it.
This isn't how you treat people who run the community you claim to
participate in. Nor is this the first time you've acted this way towards
*volunteer developers*.
Kindly choose your words more carefully, and think ahead about how to
make a meaningful contribution here. Complaining endlessly is not
earning you any merit, and the tone you've taken actually does you a
disservice. If you push this attitude any farther, you're liable to end
up in people's killfiles / junk mail folders...or worse.
-Joan "PMC hat on" Touzet
