RE: Future of cons?

[Steven Allen]

I normally stay out of emotionally charged discussions like this, but I have
to agree that we have to have a reasonable amount of response and support of
Cons if we are to grow, get more users on board, and spread the word.  IF
users have legitimate problems 

Let's not get cranky about it.  Let's keep the end goal in mind.  We like
Cons and it deserves a long healthy life.  Let's all kick in and keep it
alive, growing and viewed as a next generation tool, not a cute idea that
the people who use it can't even agree about.

To this end, I'll put up since I don't want to shut up.  I'll help maintain
the website.  I also am relatively perl proficient so I'll dig into the code
a bit more and help with bug fixes and future enhancements.  The big
hesitation I have here is that my knowledge of perl is good, but the I've
not really dug into the Cons program.  I'll do this and see what I can say
in a week or so...

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: Nadim Khemir [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:23 AM
To: 'Brad Garcia'
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: Future of cons?

>Stop acting like a jerk, and realize that Doug was *volunteering* to take
>over some *minimal* duties since nobody else (including YOU) was stepping
>forward to take over this stuff.
... 
>If YOU have specific changes that you would like to make to CONS, then by
>all means, go ahead and make them.  If you want to have rational, CALM
>discussions about where you think CONS should go in the future, then again,
>please post here.

>But if you are going to continue to whine, complain, and act like a jerk
>towards other list members, then I would much rather you go away.

> Brad Garcia

Why don't you get lost and ask your mama to educate you not to say jerks to
people. If you want a calm discussion, you should not write it CALM because
that pisses me off even more. If you want to continue this discussion let's
do it private so I can put you back where you belong. 

I re-read my mail three times to make sure I didn't say anything too
personal before mailing it. The critique was not addressed to Doug as a
person but to the act of pushing forward what should be done now (done then
in fact). If Doug took the minimal duty of maintaining the web site (which
is very nice thanks) then he should not have to wait for anyone to do it
now. Or is it that people that want to do things (that's Doug) don't have
the power to do it or that the persons that want things to go forward have
to be "CALM" and not criticize.

Cons is not going much further and if I have accept slow thinking and
average change time of 6 months then I would certainly quit and use my time
better.

Nadim..

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