> Ask yourself: of the people involved in this whole brouhaha, whose code have you read?
I've definitely read Steve Klabnik's code. He's a Rails core team member, and when I work on a Rails app I frequently open stuff up to see what's going on under the hood.
> Celebrity culture is directly counter to a meritocracy. So, my challenge to the "celebrities" involved in this incident: if you fancy your high positions to be well and truly earned, remind us of that fact by going away and writing some kick-ass code.
I know that Steve's always writing code for one public open source thing or another... I've seen it. He also happens to tweet a lot. I don't think that the two things you're suggesting here have to be mutually exclusive.
I don't think I said they have to be mutually exclusive. But part of the problem, as outlined in the original post, is that these weren't anybodys disparaging an open source project...they were veritable celebrities! (Just look at their follower count!)
At the same time, Steve (as he stated in his post), seems to be having a hard time expressing his remorse. My suggestion is that he should remember why he ever attained "celebrity" status in the first place...
...also, it's a lot harder to disparage other people's code when you're buried deep in your own code.
Edit: I lost track of whose post was whose and originally wrote "as he stated in this post". Corrected.
I've definitely read Steve Klabnik's code. He's a Rails core team member, and when I work on a Rails app I frequently open stuff up to see what's going on under the hood.
> Celebrity culture is directly counter to a meritocracy. So, my challenge to the "celebrities" involved in this incident: if you fancy your high positions to be well and truly earned, remind us of that fact by going away and writing some kick-ass code.
I know that Steve's always writing code for one public open source thing or another... I've seen it. He also happens to tweet a lot. I don't think that the two things you're suggesting here have to be mutually exclusive.