Last Thursday, Aaron Mulder and I had a heated but healthy technical discussion on this list about the implementation of certain features in the new deployer. It became clear to both of us that continuing to use email was getting unproductive and Aaron pinged me on IM to see if we could discuss them directly.
We had a very productive hour-long discussion, clarified areas where we agreed and where we both saw issues, and came to consensus on how to proceed. Aaron summarized this to the list here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9712
which basically says he was going to commit his new stuff for online deployment and offline packaging. He also inquired here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9713
about how to create a experimental branch which he planned to use to check in the code for the areas that had issues that still needed to be resolved so that the entire community could see them and discuss.
At the same time I promised to email the list a detailed description of the issues as I saw them. I told Aaron that this would take a couple of days and that things were really busy at work (for the record my company was in crunch mode getting a release done).
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9721
The response to this by two members of the community was bitter and personal, almost indicative of paranoid delusion. In a stream of vitriolic email mostly with other community members I have been accused that my behaviour is not in the "Apache Way", of trying to create a "back channel", of not directing opinion to the list, of not fulfilling my obligation to vote, and had my motivations treated with suspicion.
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9714 http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9717 http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9718 http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9727 http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9743
This is neither healthy nor technical. This behaviour is harmful to the reputation and perception of this community and this project. It will not be condoned.
My promised description of the issues I saw has been sent to the list and is available at
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=9851
Let us civily seek consensus and get this behind us.
-- Jeremy
