[itamarhaber]

Dear Salvatore,

Your arguments are exactly what I had wished for - your POV is just as crucial and my only regret is that we didn't "demand" that you go on stage then and there to present it - I would have certainly stayed for that and the ensuing discussion no matter how long it would have lasted after closing time (although, in second thought, that would have been extremely unfair as you would have been pushed into a tight spot w/o preparation, so I take that back). I could offer my views on each of the points but that's hardly relevant IMO, useless :)

What really pains me is seeing you two beautiful and smart individuals, who are passionate about the same thing, disagreeing so heatedly over these issues. I think (hope?) I can see where each one of you is coming from and to me it doesn't look like your goals are that different. Perhaps the nature of an open source community is such that such topics needs to be vented out in public - /me don't know. I sincerely hope that the core team will find a way to overcome these differences because despite of (or maybe because of) them, from a bystander's POV, it looks to me like you have a good thing going - together and backed by an amazing community.

[antirez]

> I think (hope?) I can see where each one of you is coming from and to me it doesn't look like your goals are that different

Sorry I disagree. I had already some issue with Matt's behavior, and Matt is not the project leader, yet in my talk I praised him two times, because this kind of things put the foundation to work together better.

Instead he provided a talk that goes exactly in the other direction. This human interaction issue made me reflecting about the other issues I had with Matt in the past months, for me it is GAME OVER. I'll continue to merge his PRs only after stringent reviews / testing, and that's it.