Apache: ‘No jerks allowed’

“In fact, in a presentation today I attended at SAP in Walldorf,
Germany, Apache Software Foundation President Justin Erenkrantz
called out the importance of good manners to good governance at
Apache:

“There are going to be people on an open mailing list who are
idiots, or maybe they’re just having a bad day. Don’t feed the
trolls. Don’t become a poisonous person.

“It seems like reasonable advice, but it’s discouraging to see
this basic rule of polite society regularly broken within the wider
open-source community. Some feel that a license to code is a
license to shout others down. It’s not. At least, not at
Apache.”

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