Agreed, but we did give the "WTF" guy a lot more leeway. I think MK brought up some good points (arguing against trying to create one version of haml that supports every single Rails version in existance). It has been somewhat brittle over the years. The good vastly outweights the bad though, and I see it as a minor inconvenience to me to get the huge benefits.
Not that I condone his last paragraph which was ill conceived. But maybe I'm already used to his somewhat crass emails over the years.... On Mar 1, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Chris Eppstein wrote: > No amount of open source contribution forgives rudeness. > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jacques Crocker <merbj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to stick up for MK a bit (who has been a huge contributor on the Merb > and Datamapper projects), he was mainly offering feedback on how to manage > the release process. Not complaining that anyone isnt working hard enough. > > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Randy Parker wrote: > > > +1 for Nathan, and I agree entirely with Chris' views. > > > > Michael - since you are doing all this QA work anyhow, why don't you > > contribute bug reports and tests? > > > > To me, the sad part is people using a free tool, doing a lot of work to > > verify that it works for their business, contributing none of that work > > back to the volunteers who maintain the tool, and then complaining that > > those volunteers don't work hard enough. It's beyond sad - it's offensive > > and hypocritical. > > > > - Randy > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Haml" group. > > To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to h...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to haml+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.