On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
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> On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
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>> In this light, I would like to make two points:
>>
>> * Please stop saying that the word "PMC" is bandied about
>> frequently. This is
>> provably false.
>
> MarkMail has archives of many of the ASF mailing lists. The archive
> for httpd, the original project goes back to 1999:
>
> <http://httpd.markmail.org/search/?q=PMC>
>
> In that almost 10 year period: 247 references of any kind to PMC in
> the dev list.
>
> For CouchDB's 1 years, 79 references in the dev list.
>
> <http://couchdb.markmail.org/search/?q=PMC>
>
> What I said:
>
>> I don't know if this is what Geir means, but there is a lot of use
>> of the letters PMC in messages on the list. Much more than usual,
>> in my experience. That may sound like a small thing, but that
>> kind of small thing, repeated over time, can lead to a highly
>> stratified community, which is undesirable.
>
> So we have 79/yr for couch and 25/yr for httpd. that's 3x.
>
> Also, absent from your list of messages is the long thread in user@
> titled
>
> "Current CouchDB state", which has numerous usages, as well as a
> troubling exchange with Jim Jagielski.
Ted, that's the same exact issue. It's just been brought up again.
-Damien
>
>
> I'm very disappointed that we've now degenerated into message
> counting.
>
> Ted
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