On Friday 24 September 2004 20:40, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 07:18, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > The goal initially was to highlight that "The Apache Way" speaks highly > > of the positive sides of meritocracy, but ignores any possible 'misuse' > > of the system. > > And that needs a semi-public forum to be highlighted?
I think so. It concerns us all. > You can, but you should damned well ask the author of the original email > for permission first (and, ideally, you should also ask the persons who > are the subject of the email). Stephen was asked. He has no objections of washing laundry in the open, which seems to be such a big issue. > > Being 'kicked out' of your own work is a big > > thing that I think most active committers would like to know more about. > > No? > Nobody's being kicked out of anything. Really? Feel free to explain that to Steve in an open letter here. Possibly 50% or more of the current Avalon codebase is written by him, and he is not allowed to work as a committer in Avalon. Hence our request of the Metro project, to get a community free of old grudges and hindrance. > And if even if someone was, is > is *not* your place to bring this message outside of the private forum > in which it originated. I have quoted a fraction of a long mail, with the consent of the "victim". If that is too much exposure of the Board activities, then I suggest you take disciplinary actions against me. (Hold on, there aer no procedures for that, are there now?) > You seem to be confusing "Open Source" software with "Open up absolutely > everything to everyone". The latter does nothing but waste peoples > time. Sorry for wasting your time. It is yours to waste, though. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
