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.
--
Chad
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