On 06/09/2013 09:11 PM, Johan Herland wrote: > [...] > FWIW, I'd like to express my support for the opinions expressed by > Jonathan, Jeff and Thomas. They accurately describe my impression of > these discussion threads.
I also agree. In my opinion, Felipe, your abrasiveness, your disregard of project standards, and your eternal argumentativeness outweigh the benefit of your contributions, large though they may be. Writing code is only a small part of keeping the Git project going. * Reviewing code is an essential, more thankless, and therefore more precious, contribution. Therefore the Git project has standards to make code review less unpleasant and more effective; for example: (1) patches shouldn't cause regressions; (2) commit messages have to be written to very high standards; (3) reviewers' comments should be accepted gratefully and taken very seriously. Almost everybody in the Git community accepts these standards. Felipe, you do not seem to. The result is that reviewers' time and goodwill are wasted, and they justifiably feel unvalued. We can't afford to misuse reviewers; they are the bedrock (and the bottleneck) of the project. * Gaining and keeping contributors is important to maintaining the success of the project. The mailing list is the main forum for the development community; therefore, it is important that the mailing list be a place where people display a high degree of technical excellence, but also respect for one another, friendliness (or at least a lack of hostility), and discussions that do turn into flame wars. It is possible to have a profound technical disagreement without losing respect for the other side; contrariwise it is NOT acceptable to twist a technical disagreement into a personal attack, even by the slightest insinuation. Felipe, in my opinion your participation in the mailing list lowers the tone dramatically, and will result in loss of other contributors and the failure to attract new contributors. Felipe, I wish that you would devote a small fraction of your prodigious energy to the very difficult challenge of feeling empathy, understanding, and respect for the other members of the community. But if things continue the way they have, I personally would, with sadness in my heart, prefer to forgo your patches in exchange for the more important benefit of a more collegial (and therefore overall more productive and sustainable) community. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
