-) The blog entry you link to had nothing to do with wicket, it was about Tapestry 5 development progress.
Yep, but the comments started this all.
-) Your user community linked to it and started a discussion about it which you suggest you discourage and yet openly add to the discussion leaving the impression that you agree with the people harassing Howard on his blog. http://www.nabble.com/funny--OT%7D-tf2793504.html#a7793441
I don't agree with people harassing Howard, and reading back my comments, I don't think I left that impression. I do think Howard should have a bit thicker skin though. You don't want to know how often people are attacking me/ Wicket with Tapestry/ JSF/ Struts centric arguments. The thing to do then is get back to the attacker directly, rather then generalizing the 'conflict'. Really, the comments on that blog are as insulting to me/ us as they are to you.
-) I agree that this sort of thing is bad for projects in general, but if you think I'm going to sit idly by and watch my friends get torn apart by people for no good reason you are sadly mistaken.
You had all the right reacting on that thread.
-) I don't agree that you can't police your users/community. Leaders lead by example. If you didn't think these actions were appropriate you could just have easily said "while I understand how this might be controversial/etc/whatever I think these feelings are best placed in another medium not in our projects mailing list." A blog is one thing, a project mailing list is quite another.
I'm not in favor of being politically correct all the time. If people want to bring something to our attention, I think the user list is fine for that. I rather speak about it in the open than building up some behind-the-scenes irritations. That said, I agree that thread wasn't necessary in the first place. As one of the earlier developers and a close friend of Jonathan, I just get irritated about reading how Wicket is supposed to be a rip-off and how the community around it is supposed to consist of a rowdy bunch. Hence my harsh reaction.
So yes, let's get back to developing. Just remember that "rowdy users" can go both ways.
Yep, we should both remember that. Eelco --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
