[wp-hackers] WordPress and Poisonous People

[Ryan McCue]

Hi Jeff,

Although the effect of the GSoC applications does effect this, this is  
not just for this month, but rather it is an ongoing thing. This has  
been occuring increasingly, however, which is why I bring it up now.

Also, the reason I phrased my message the way I did was in order to  
not single out one person in particular. If anyone is really that  
curious, there are statistics easily available on this list's traffic.

Thanks,
--
Ryan McCue
<http://ryanmccue.info/>

On 02/04/2010, at 0:19, Jeff Chandler <jeffc at wptavern.com> wrote:

> I remember Matt bringing up this topic during an interview I had  
> with him, he specifically mentioned the poisonous people  
> presentation that you referenced. However, I think there is so much  
> noise on this list during the month of March specifically because of  
> all the Google Summer Of Code ideas, proposals, applications, and  
> discussions. I bet if you took all of the responses with GSOC in  
> them out of the list, it would be like any other month.
>
> I like how you brought this up though. It's like a game of CLUE  
> where everyone looks around trying to figure out who is the poison  
> although the answer may seen in a mirror.
>
> I understand the idea of poisonous people but at the same time, we  
> can't keep telling people to just fork the project or shut up and  
> write code. If we do that, we'll end up with more discussions and  
> opinions of the entire project like this guys.
>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/382009?replies=15
>
> In the scope of the entire WordPress project, are the only people  
> that matter the ones that can code patches?
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