On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:57:17PM +0000, Everett Toews wrote: > On Jun 16, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote: > > I agree that we should have few requirements, e.g., we should not > > *require* contributors to be nice to each other. However, we should > > *encourage* certain behaviors, e.g., contributors should treat each > > other with respect. > > Honestly, this e.g. has taken me aback. Presumably you’re referring to my 2nd > email on this thread. > > I felt strongly about the issue and stated my opinion as such. Reading back > on it I can see that the tone is much too harsh. I apologize for that. > > Nice is relative but I promise you that I approached this issue the way I did > out of respect for you, AP, and the jclouds community. This discussion didn’t > belong in a PR so I moved it here for more visibility by the community. > > My 2nd email (admittedly an overly harsh rant) could easily have been the > initial email. Instead, I tried to objectively state the facts to start the > discussion. I did this out of respect for the community.
Please do not connect these strawman examples to any current or previous discussions; I did not intend them as such and do not take issue with the content or presentation of your position. I believe we actually agree to not require apache.org committer emails, although might disagree about recommending the use of them. -- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/
