Re: The Apache Way and good developers don’t like to communicate

I cannot see how someone could be a an effective community member without joining the community's communication channel. That just seems a practical necessity. Especially if someone is to be given the keys, to become a committer. They need to be there to respond, e.g. if they were to break thing

Re: Why are large code drops damaging to a community?

My wayback was to 2002/3, when I was playing with Cocoon. Their CLI was implemented as a large monolithic Java class, and quite impenetrable. I had spent an age working on a large refactoring that made it much clearer and more usable. Unfortunately, it also broke backwards compatibility. Vadim