On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:19:13AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Matt S Trout <m...@shadowcat.co.uk> [2016-05-11 20:23]: > > Were I you, I'd simply take the evidence as available: > > > > - At least four people thought your comment was phrased unkindly > > - At least one person thought your comment was phrased fine > > I cringed at the comment, but I also realised this was because I know > that Neil is in a position to know what he is talking about. I guessed > that Buddy simply did not, and I assumed the comment would have passed > by unnoticed if it had been directed at some random subscriber helping > out, so I thought it best not to make a fuss of it myself on behalf of > Neil without asking him, and to leave it to Neil whether he wanted the > point addressed.
I assumed Neil was too nice to ask for that. Then again, I also assumed Buddy would say "huh, that totally wasn't what I was intending to convey, my apologies to Neil if he read it that way" and move on. Some days people make no sense to me at all (and the rest of the time I think I understand but have a pretty mediocre rate at being right about that ;) -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our CPAN commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
