Ted Husted wrote:
Ummm, it's a longstanding tradition that we don't tolerate personal attacks. I would consider it a personal courtesy if people would not engage in personal insults, even on my behalf.
Ted, it's good that you are against people engaging in personal attacks. However, I would have found your stance more convincing if you had said something when, for example, James Mitchell (who is a colleague of yours on the Struts PMC) and other people (some of whom have @apache.org email addresses) started engaging in illegitimate personal attacks on me. (That was about a month ago.)
Your silence in that previous instance gives me the impression that you only have enough moral conviction on this, when you can express it with no risk -- i.e. to stand up to somebody, who, as in this case, is basically a nobody.
Moreover, quite contrary to what you say above, I think that, as a matter of fact, there is actually a tradition here (I'm not sure how longstanding) of engaging in personal attacks to quell dissent.
Anyway, if you really think that kind of thing is wrong, you should IMO voice your objections consistently when this stuff occurs. I don't see you doing that.
Jonathan Revusky -- lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
We all have a limited number of volunteer hours to spend. I choose to my time helping earnest users. If anyone wants to return that courtesy, please find another earnest user to help, and share the wealth! -Ted.
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