From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T13:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: OT-cooling w ruby (RE: [ANN] Mongrel 0.3.13.1 -- Quick Small Fixes)

Pe�a wrote:
> Hi Zed and James,
> To me, you both are very cool ruby hackers. so before you 
 > start calling names to each other, might as well settle your diffs
 > offline, preferably w cool beer and pizza..

Thanks for the compliment, Pe�a.

I don't drink, but I'd consider having coffee with Mr. Shaw.

I replied privately to his recent post, and want to leave it at that, 
and really don't want to see anyone make anything more of this.

I had previously sent Mr. Shaw a private message, hoping to clarify my 
lengthy post on ruby-talk, and had thought that any continued discussion 
could have been handled that way.  I was mistaken.  Mr. Shaw and I have 
different ideas on communication technique.

That's life.

One other thing: I know the people who created and look after Rubygems, 
and they have my utmost respect.  If nothing else, I want to be sure 
that they don't take anything I wrote as a dig or a shallow way to ask 
for changes.  If I offended, my apologies.


> just my friendly nuby advice.
> kind regards -botp

Thanks, and much appreciated.  By and large, the Ruby community has some 
of the warmest and smartest people I've encountered.  I've been 
surprised on a few occasions to meet people in real life who's online 
presence was tactless at best, but who in fact are quite sincere, 
enthusiastic, and well-intentioned.  You never know.  So I continue to 
try to think well of people, even when they beg me not to.


James Britt