Hey list, FWIW, this issue was briefly discussed during the FIG meeting held at PHPDay (time context: during the "phpixiegate"), and no one disagreed when Paul M. Jones' behaviour was generally deemed unconstructive, if not unpleasant. The discussion was quickly dismissed to avoid further "drama" talk, though.
Furthermore, not that it matters much, during that same period I personally confronted Paul on this very list [1]; predictably, his reply looked quite dismissive and arrogant to me, which made me not want to interact with him any further [2]. A few weeks after that episode, I briefly expressed some concerns on this issue with one of the FIG representatives, during a private email exchange regarding the summary of said PHPDay FIG meeting, between some of those who were present at the meeting itself. The comments about Paul were eventually left out of the summary because they held little to no relevance in comparison to the other topics (i.e. Simple Cache PSR and FIG 3.0). Having said that, I've been following the FIG since not long after its inception, and Paul has undoubtedly given a lot of useful technical input to this group; nevertheless, this shouldn't grant him the right to drive people away with this sort of "deal with it" attitude, nor to flood the list with 40ish email in 3 days, deliberately ignoring every single warning about self-throttling. Now, opinions about behaviour are very subjective of course, but the fact that we've come to this thread should ring a bell. In fact, if this discussion has been brought up, there are probably legitimate reasons. Ultimately, though, I don't think he should be voted out; I hope this matter can be addressed without resorting to such measure, and I hope Paul will acknowledge that there is a problem with his contributions to the group, both in form and - as of lately - in contents. This doesn't mean that he should always agree and be cheerful, it just means "please stop being abrasive and be more constructive", which is basically what I wanted to express when I confronted him in the first place. Also, for the record, I hold no personal grudge, and no political/social beliefs/ideas have any involvement whatsoever with these opinions, I just want to this group to thrive and be successful in its mission to improve the software ecosystem I work with. Best regards. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/php-fig/RwFMv1NokBQ/7XPPLEDJDwAJ [2] https://twitter.com/storresi/status/732361070979911680 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAFojS1uSbT1vmpFQaZqqvDq49XWNa7xopCzkqt7UuERkchyXFg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
