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
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