[pmwiki-users] [pmwiki-devel] Announce: pmwiki-social

[The Editor]

On 4/30/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> I disagree with this on several fronts.
>
> First, in some ways what is happening with Dan *is* his
> fault, in that some of his posts go against open-source
> community norms and expectations (likely unintentionally).

My sincere apologies to anyone offended by any of the misconduct
mentioned by Pm. I certainly never intended to make anyone feel
"threatened". I'll carefully reconsider things in light of some of the
points he made.

> In another perspective, Dan has commented several times that
> he feels a forum is superior to a mailing list for answering
> these sorts of questions.  Taking Dan at his word, perhaps
> everyone would be better served if there were a ZAP forum
> somewhere, and then Dan could simply direct any questions
> regarding ZAP, Acme, etc. could simply be directed to the forum,
> without having to repeat his answers on the list.

Actualy there is quite a bit of documentation at ZAPsite with comments
and answers to many questions. But not sure how many are taking
advantage of it, so I may have been wrong on this one too.
Nevertheless, it would not hurt to put up some extra pages there and
just point people to those pages as needed.

> > So, _please_, stop treating Dan as some alien. Give him a place. His needs
> > represent the needs of many *contributors*, by being of the unselfish
> > category. [...]  So I confront Pm with the (passive) suppression of
> > social interaction.
>
> I think I'm innocent on this charge, but I'll let my past actions
> (or non-actions) speak for themselves.  I'll also note that Dan's
> posts don't seem to make this claim -- he seems to feel that I've
> been sufficiently supportive of his efforts.

Just to reiterate, I agree completely, Pm has never said or done
anything from my perspective but show the utmost respect and courtesy.
And I thank him for his level-headed leadership of the community here.
 He's been a great inspiration to me.

Cheers,
Dan