[gustavo-fring]

Someone on this thread called Drew "militant", which isn't as negative as it sounds but accurate.

I will say, having observed his interactions in a few places, he rubs me the wrong way sometimes, even though it seems his heart is in the right place. I get it, totally guilty of it myself with strongly held views.

Don't mean this as a criticism but rather as a friendly suggestion if Drew is reading, but there are a lot of situations where backing down or just a softer approach is in order, especially now that he's running a business. There are a lot of us that are interested in what he's doing, but hesitant about using his services because it isn't obvious when the it is my way or the highway approach is going to come out.

[beagle3]

My observation is that most of the people who get projects done, in the sense that they can manage a project with many contributors over a long period of time with successful outcomes, are considered somewhere between militant and obnoxious by others. The project leaders who are all-around considered nice, like GvR and (so far) Andrew Kelly (not an exhaustive list!) are the exception, not the rule.

I do want to point that millitant/obnoxious/ahole is a very subjective judgement. Personally, I've read many of (what's considered) Linus' worst responses, and I did not find them a problem - he is not gentle, and he occasionally uses expletives, but he is factual, and drives the point through in places gentler people waste ten times as much effort, by themselves (and everyone else) to get the same result - and the result IS good.

I, for one, much prefer to be told "this is sh*t, you need to redo this" (assuming, of course, that's a good summary) than going around and around in endless deliberations about specific details.