Chad Nelson wrote:
I don't know what culture you [Mathias] grew up in, but mocking someone's words, questioning his competence, and finding any excuse to belittle his work is incredibly offensive in mine. And that's the content of at least half of your messages to me, when you're not simply expressing the unbelievably arrogant and self-centered assumption that you know the best way to do something that you've never attempted, but that I've put a hell of a lot of work into developing, and that anything I've done differently is automatically wrong.
On the small chance that you really don't know how insulting your messages are, here's some advice: if you want your opinions to be taken seriously by anyone with a spine, try a little respect for the intelligence of the person on the other side of the conversation, and assume that he's competent and does things for a reason until proven otherwise, even if that reason isn't perfect. It will make people a lot more receptive to your ideas.
Chad has posted a number of outbursts like this in the last few days. It seems to me that they are unjustified: this particular response was, according to how Chad himself has quoted the thread, in response to the comment "I don't see how that requires virtual inheritance". I don't think anyone has yet agreed with Chad that virtual inheritance is the right solution here; it certainly looks mighty odd to me. Yet that criticism sends Chad off the rails. We can't go on like this. I propose that the review be stopped now. There should already be enough input for the Review Manager to make a decision. If we carry on, this list will turn into the sort of "flame fest" that we all know happens elsewhere, but not normally in Boost. Regards, Phil.