Chris Howe wrote:
Whether you want them to or not, David, most of the people in the community assume that when you say to ignore or not worry about someone's comment that you're speaking from experience and are in the know on the best practice. That kind of kills discussion.
Yes, that was kind of my intention. The discussion had gone on too long and didn't seem to have a good deal of benefit, especially not related to that issue.
I'm of the opinion that this community should have the mentality that if a decision has to be made, that it be made in local, custom code. The only decisions that should be put into SVN are the _best_ decisions, not just _a_ decision. The only way to come to a _best_ decision is to point out specifically, the strengths and weaknesses in the options presented.
Is that not what was done? I'm sorry you disagree Chris. I can see by your increased activity in the project that want to become more involved, but there are better ways of doing so. I have no problem with the things you want to discuss being discussed, but in the proper context (like the dev mailing list). The difference might be difficult to see, but the best way to get involved is help move things forward, not question every decision that has been made and bring up reasons by things should not be done the way they are. In fact this is bordering on being categorized as complaining, or "trolling". In the spirit of doing things the ASF way, which is quite well established, perhaps the following resources would be helpful: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy and: http://www.apache.org/dev/project-mailing-lists.html#trolls You can correctly infer by my including these links that I'm giving up trying to discuss it and appealing to an authority figure. Perhaps I shouldn't do either, maybe I'm justing wasting both of our time and only escalating the problem... -David
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