Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jeff King wrote: >> I actually think word choice and politeness is only a small part of it, >> and one that I live without. It is not just _how_ something is said, >> but _what_ is said. And sometimes what is said does not lead in a >> productive direction. I found Thomas's comment here: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/227053 >> >> sums up the core of many of the conflicts I've seen on the list. > > This is all very good, Jeff. Various people have expressed what's > wrong with fc's "demeanour", "tone", and "style of discussion" in > various different ways at various different points in time. This goes > on and on and on with no end in sight. WHAT do we do? > > I'll be frank: I'm a pragmatic person, and I want to see work. > Despite all this mess, who has shown me the most number of patches > with some direction? Felipe. Who gets the most number of patches > into git.git, by far? Felipe. And who is wasting time theorizing > about what's wrong with Felipe in various ways? Everyone else. At what cost? The arguments arise to a large degree from attempting to review his work. Not doing so is not an option, see e.g.: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/223279 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/225969 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/226125 And that's not even counting the part of the argument that arises purely from deliberate flaunting of the project's guidelines. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html