On Topic: 1. perl-begin.berlios.de + 2. Meta: Apology for Tactlessness

[Andy Armstrong]

On 6 Apr 2007, at 10:00, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> I'll be glad to help contributors help me. If you are someone I  
> know, I would
> gladly give you a commit bit. To do that send me an email with the  
> requested
> username and password in a separate text file encrypted with my  
> public key (
> http://www.shlomifish.org/me/ ). Otherwise, you can prepare a patch  
> against the
> Subversion sources (not the HTML themselves, which are generated from
> templates) - http://perl-begin.berlios.de/source/ , send it to me  
> and I'll give
> you the write permissions to apply it. (Also send me the username 
> +password
> encrypted again).

Could the whole site not be a wiki? From a quick scan it seems as if  
the non-wiki parts contain wikish content.

> I later on have been talking a lot with merlyn on Freenode's #perl.  
> He seems
> like a very nice guy, and I'm pretty sure he's a good guy (i.e: not a
> malevolent one), and certainly has been very productive, and also  
> helpful
> to many people with Perl, UNIX or other problems. I asked him to  
> forgive me
> for this post, and he did. Merlyn is not without his faults, of  
> course, but
> I won't mention them here.

You see I'd say that's borderline tactless again. If you're supposed  
to be in apologising mode a throwaway line like "Merlyn is not  
without his faults, of course, but I won't mention them here." isn't  
especially diplomatic :)

For the record I too am not without my faults - but I won't mention  
them here either.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net