Alex J. Avriette wrote:
How about current versions of relevant software that we use in production? Since you don't even care enough to check whether MySQL ships compiled for AMD64 before spouting off, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Brion, if you don't want me here, please tell me so, and please indicate to jwales and chaper that you felt this pissing contest of yours was more important than my input -- which both requested.
I'd be happy for help with discussing and researching options from anyone with some knowledge in the area. You offered help, I accepted the offer as an individual, hopefully with the understanding I wasn't doing so as a representative of anyone else. Among the many things that puzzle me about this entire episode, there are three in particular that stand out:
1. I haven't received a reply to my last email to you directly.
2. Someone else contacted me to let me know that he/she had the distinct impression that you thought the two of us (you and I) were on bad terms personally, now, for some reason. I made a couple of informal inquiries, but haven't gotten any information and decided to just let that go for now as rumor.
3. Your references to me and to Jimbo seem to indicate that you feel like you've been appointed some semi-official task, which strikes me as odd. Your reference to both of us requesting your help ("my input -- which both requested") is a good example of that. In your position, I would have phrased that a little more like this: "my input -- which I offered to both, and both accepted the offer." This may seem like a trivial detail at first glance, but the fact of the matter is that you volunteered and we said to ourselves "Hey, another volunteer should be a good thing!" Nobody solicited you as a volunteer. That doesn't make your help less valuable, where it's offered, but your apparent belief that you have some kind of official sanction and that there's a precedence of importance assigned to your input is, as I indicated, puzzling to me.
I'd still like to have your input, where it's thoughtful and free of abrasive qualities that are likely to put off the devs doing sysadmin tasks.
That's just me, though. I don't speak for anyone else in this.