On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>> but now that you did, I feel compelled to reply the same way. >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Aug 28, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >>>>> msn-pecan is a "fork" of libpurple's MSN plug-in in the same sense >>>>> that MariaDB is a fork of MySQL; the former comes from the original >>>>> author(s) due to the inability to contribute as wanted on the later. >>>> >>>> Was this portion really necessary? You've been told numerous times to >>>> stop, and while this is much better than previous emails, this whole >>>> paragraph could have been removed and no value would have been lost in >>>> this email. You don't even start the email out with what the email is >>>> about, you just go into the whole rehashing of why msn-pecan exists. I get >>>> it, you don't like something, but get over it. You have something good >>>> going here, but it's tainted by the continued perceived hatred you are >>>> eschewing. Please discontinue this practice, it's simply annoying and >>>> childish at this point. >>> >>> Many projects start their release announcements by explaining what the >>> project is. I'm simply doing the same. >> >> No you aren't. Those announcements do not get spammed to other mailing >> lists, they usually just go to the relevant project's mailing list. >
I felt that Felipe's introduction was succinct and free of the vitriol
