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• Hear, hear! (Score:1)

  by sjn (3626)

  This is what happens when people forget that community and code are more important than opinions and ego. It's OK to disagree with someone, but always only in a polite manner... :-\
  
  - Salve
  • Re:Hear, hear! (Score:1)

    by sigzero (5768)

    Exactly!
• Storm in a teacup (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  I think this is (except for a handful of people involved) a storm in a teacup. Within hours we had a new list and a mirror of the wiki. Tony is continuing to develop Class::DBI. If you disregard the gossiping there is no impact on how you use the module.
  
  Also I believe that exactly because these kind of rows are so uncommon and how quickly friendly mongers come together to solve a problem when it occurs that just the opposite is true - Perl Mongers are (with very few exceptions) easy to get on with and fr

  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:Storm in a teacup (Score:1)

    by sigzero (5768)

    I agree. I wasn't actually trying to pin the "rightness or wrongness" of it. Just the perception.
  • Re:Storm in a teacup (Score:1)

    by Denny (5407)

    Apparently we don't have a mirror of the wiki any more - Tony exercised his rights as copyright holder on much of it (and asserted rights as copyright holder on all of it) and got it taken down:
    
    http://cdbi-wiki.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ [shadowcatsystems.co.uk]
    
    I also just read that he's threatened use.perl with legal action due to sri's post here:
    
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7463 [oreillynet.com] (about halfway down)