Re: Lack of netiquette, was Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] New remote-hg helper

[trimmed down heavily by mjg]
Felipe Contreras venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2012 16:22:

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Felipe Contreras venit, vidit, dixit 02.11.2012 17:09:

quoted

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

There is no lack of openness from my part. I hear all technical
arguments, and I reply on a technical basis. The problem seems to be
is that you expect the code submitted to be criticized, but not the
criticism it receives. IOW; the submitter has to put up with anything
anybody says about his/her code and ideas, but the *reviewer* is
untouchable; the submitter cannot ever criticize the reviewer. I can

Feel free to criticize the criticism, just don't offend the criticizer
(be it the reviewer or the submitter).

tell you that doesn't happen in the Linux kernel; the review process
is a _discussion_, not a one-way communication, and discussions can be
heated up, but the end result is better code, *both* sides are open to
criticism, the submitter, *and* the reviewer.

Exactly, both.

quoted

And no, using the same or similar language does not make us the same at
all. Using the same language is the natural prerequisite for successful
communication.

Nobody said otherwise.

Well, you did in the post I responded to:

quoted

quoted

The dangers of "everyone" following the same style of communication,
and making "everyone" feel comfortable, is that "everyone" ends up
being the same kind of people

In any case, I feel I've showed enough efforts and there's no point in
dragging this on.

Michael