Re: [boost] [xint] Boost.XInt formal review (Chad Nelson)

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Boost.XInt formal review (Chad Nelson)
From: Phil Endecott (spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-05 12:47:09

Chad Nelson wrote:
> I don't know what culture you [Mathias] grew up in, but mocking someone's words,
> questioning his competence, and finding any excuse to belittle his work
> is incredibly offensive in mine. And that's the content of at least half
> of your messages to me, when you're not simply expressing the
> unbelievably arrogant and self-centered assumption that you know the
> best way to do something that you've never attempted, but that I've put
> a hell of a lot of work into developing, and that anything I've done
> differently is automatically wrong.
>
> On the small chance that you really don't know how insulting your
> messages are, here's some advice: if you want your opinions to be taken
> seriously by anyone with a spine, try a little respect for the
> intelligence of the person on the other side of the conversation, and
> assume that he's competent and does things for a reason until proven
> otherwise, even if that reason isn't perfect. It will make people a lot
> more receptive to your ideas.

Chad has posted a number of outbursts like this in the last few days.

It seems to me that they are unjustified: this particular response was, 
according to how Chad himself has quoted the thread, in response to the 
comment "I don't see how that requires virtual inheritance".  I don't 
think anyone has yet agreed with Chad that virtual inheritance is the 
right solution here; it certainly looks mighty odd to me.  Yet that 
criticism sends Chad off the rails.

We can't go on like this.  I propose that the review be stopped now.  
There should already be enough input for the Review Manager to make a 
decision.  If we carry on, this list will turn into the sort of "flame 
fest" that we all know happens elsewhere, but not normally in Boost.

Regards,  Phil.