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On Feb 14, 2015, at 9:28 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
>> Yes, but to contribute to that, you really need to be part of the
>> inner circle . . . The strange tribal sensitivities of the inner
>> circle don't affect you.
> 
> Please stop spreading this nonsense.  I've been giving out git access
> to anyone who shows a bit of promise, and we've got a big "inner
> circle" that's too afraid to do anything because people like you
> critisize their every move.

Then why is the attribute censorship bug not fixed in any distro? Bas and I contributed a fix *four years* ago. I won’t go into the opposition we faced even to get the hooks in place to fix it with an add-on. There are more messages in that email thread than there are lines of code in the fix.

> 
> Personally, I think our community sucks.  Example:
> 
>> I would dispute that they are *all* badly written.
> 
> Who would want to contribute, knowing that this is the type of
> comments they're likely to get?

Huh? It was *Peter* who was criticizing the Scheme back ends. My comment was a little bit of a joke, since I wrote some of them. My earliest contributions *are* badly written, “cargo culted” from bad examples. But I generally approve of the back ends, as the whole paragraph that sentence came from showed. I *encourage* contributions of back ends, and I don’t mind that the code isn’t wonderful. It doesn’t need to be: it just has to get the work done.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com