Cache politics
I’ve used a lot of open source products, followed the mailing lists of a few, and contributed to a couple. So I’m no expert. But I’ve heard of JBoss’s anonymous plugs, seen a couple of flame wars and caught wind of the various ways that humanities foibles make their way into the OSS space.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see it take place; but I was.
In the last couple of months, I put a bit of time into a couple of bug fixes in EHCache, so I’ve been monitoring the forums. To my surprise, Aaron Smuts, a committer for JCS posted across the EHCache forums - answers which consisted simply of “JCS is better”, “Do this in JCS like x”, “JCS doesn’t have this bug”.
Not all his actions were quite so petty though - he posted a link to his performance comparisons in its own thread on the forum. Empirical tests are useful, and can lead to healthy discussion. So why bother splattering petty grafitti across forums where people are after useful answers?
I’m hoping he persists with his constructive comparisons and drops the schoolyard pettiness. It doesn’t help anybody.