Re: advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

At 4:11p -0500 on 17 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
> The guy sets my "jerk" alarms ringing like a 5 alarm fire. He doesn't
> play well with others, he constantly starts fights, and he threatens
> to take his ball and go home every time he loses. I don't care how
> much code he writes, I don't think he's worth the headache.

> As I said, I get the impression that most of the Drupal developers get
> this, and they have mentioned more than once that Drupal's design goal
> is to be database-agnostic. It just seems to be Karoly and a few people
> here and there that he's able to incite into riot.

> I'm upset with the community. The other core members need to stand up
> to Karoly and say, "You opinions are not those of the community, and
> we'll ban you from the lists if you continue to start this fight over
> and over again."

I recently ran across this video about "poisonous people" in open source
projects. It's perhaps prudent. It's about 55 minutes long.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645

Kevin