From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Move sequencer to builtin
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:40:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B51256.5060602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B4F6CA.8020807@alum.mit.edu>
[Sorry for the full quote, but sometimes, repetita iuvant]
On 06/09/2013 11:42 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 06/09/2013 09:11 PM, Johan Herland wrote:
>> [...]
>> FWIW, I'd like to express my support for the opinions expressed by
>> Jonathan, Jeff and Thomas. They accurately describe my impression of
>> these discussion threads.
>
> I also agree. In my opinion, Felipe, your abrasiveness, your disregard
> of project standards, and your eternal argumentativeness outweigh the
> benefit of your contributions, large though they may be.
>
> Writing code is only a small part of keeping the Git project going.
>
> * Reviewing code is an essential, more thankless, and therefore more
> precious, contribution. Therefore the Git project has standards to make
> code review less unpleasant and more effective; for example: (1) patches
> shouldn't cause regressions; (2) commit messages have to be written to
> very high standards; (3) reviewers' comments should be accepted
> gratefully and taken very seriously. Almost everybody in the Git
> community accepts these standards. Felipe, you do not seem to. The
> result is that reviewers' time and goodwill are wasted, and they
> justifiably feel unvalued. We can't afford to misuse reviewers; they
> are the bedrock (and the bottleneck) of the project.
>
> * Gaining and keeping contributors is important to maintaining the
> success of the project. The mailing list is the main forum for the
> development community; therefore, it is important that the mailing list
> be a place where people display a high degree of technical excellence,
> but also respect for one another, friendliness (or at least a lack of
> hostility), and discussions that do turn into flame wars. It is
> possible to have a profound technical disagreement without losing
> respect for the other side; contrariwise it is NOT acceptable to twist a
> technical disagreement into a personal attack, even by the slightest
> insinuation. Felipe, in my opinion your participation in the mailing
> list lowers the tone dramatically, and will result in loss of other
> contributors and the failure to attract new contributors.
>
> Felipe, I wish that you would devote a small fraction of your prodigious
> energy to the very difficult challenge of feeling empathy,
> understanding, and respect for the other members of the community. But
> if things continue the way they have, I personally would, with sadness
> in my heart, prefer to forgo your patches in exchange for the more
> important benefit of a more collegial (and therefore overall more
> productive and sustainable) community.
>
> Michael
>
FWIW, from the meager but I hope not utterly irrelevant point
of view of a non-contrib-but-not-clueless user as I am:
*a complete and hear-felt +1 on what Michael said here*
Until a couple of months ago, skimming this list was mostly a real
pleasure, and would often give me some valuable insight on the
upcoming features/incompatibilities of Git, help me organize my own
workflow as a Git user, and also steadily improve my understanding
and command of netiquette in both "generic" mailing lists and Open
Source and/or Free Software communities.
Now, when I open my mail and get to the "git" folder, I more and
more end up asking myself:
1. "What kind of flame am I going to have to see today?"; and
2. "How much chaff will I have to navigate through to finally
to get to interesting stuff (if any is actually left)?"
*To reiterate:*
Sadly, the environment of the Git mailing list has been steadily
and slowly *sinking* -- sinking from being pleasant and useful
and even "educational", into being annoying and frustrating and
often somewhat toxic. I usually jeer and despise he who makes
public accusations by simply adding his voice to the disapproval
of the "community", but this time, I feel compelled to do exactly
that:
I do accuse Felipe's *attitude* to bring on and nourish such
unpleasantness toxicity. His technical merits and the possible
qualities of his patches do *nothing* to remove or quell such
issues.
Sorry for the extra potential controversy, but sometimes one has
to speak up,
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-09 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-07 22:16 [PATCH 0/2] Move sequencer Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] log-tree: remove dependency from sequencer Felipe Contreras
2013-06-07 22:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] Move sequencer to builtin Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 2:35 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 10:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 11:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 12:25 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 12:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 12:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-08 13:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 13:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 13:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-08 14:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 14:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-06-08 14:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 4:34 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 9:58 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 17:55 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 18:11 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:22 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 18:49 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 12:09 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 13:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 16:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-08 17:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 17:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-08 17:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 19:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 1:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-09 2:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 3:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-09 3:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 5:26 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 12:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 17:40 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:10 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 19:11 ` Johan Herland
2013-06-09 19:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 21:42 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-06-09 23:40 ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
2013-06-10 5:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 9:05 ` Bad attitudes and problems in the Git community (was: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Move sequencer to builtin) Stefano Lattarini
2013-06-10 16:58 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 18:11 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-06-10 18:33 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-06-10 18:40 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-06-10 21:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 5:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Move sequencer to builtin Felipe Contreras
2013-06-11 9:18 ` Andres Freund
2013-06-11 9:29 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-20 21:11 ` Thiago Farina
2013-06-09 17:53 ` Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 18:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 12:48 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 13:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:04 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 18:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 18:45 ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 19:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-09 20:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 20:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 5:06 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 8:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 16:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 16:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-10 17:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-06-10 18:09 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-10 21:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 18:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-09 19:25 ` Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-09 20:02 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-06-08 3:35 ` [PATCH 0/2] Move sequencer Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-08 10:26 ` Felipe Contreras
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