Fourth: Re: dirty laundry. This is almost a non-starter. Yes, some things were said that caused a bit of an uproar. Yes, the project is being held up in some respects. On the other hand, we have enough people here who care enough to give voice to their opinions AND who care enough to see the project succeed that the idea that "dirty laundry" being aired in public being a bad thing is absurd. The results say otherwise. Politics has NO place in an engineering project. None. Ever. Don't let the idea of politics creep in and kill an otherwise wonderful thing.
Fifth: Personal attacks here are without doubt, worthless. This is a list for developers, coders, and engineers. To call someone's attitude ridiculous goes right back into my previous statement about politics.
I agree hole-heartedly.
"Need-To-Know" is a governments way of admiting to its people that its got a problem (its screwed up). Just how many people where reading the dev list when the laundry bag was emptyed. If someone wanted to know, i'de just email-em the back copys of the offending email. but im not about "who's got the biggest sword", so, if this is just about hiding sh*t, its too late for that.