Steven Noels and Andy Oliver have been providing interesting commentary on the evolution of an published list of Apache committers with links to personal home pages / web logs.  What most seem to miss is that this is a classic bikeshed discussion, complete with predictions of dire consequences from individuals if their particular point of view is not adopted.

The way that these disputes tend to get resolved in Apache is that somebody steps up to the plate and builds the darn thing as best as they can and solicits input in the form of "patches" (tangible suggestions in the form of working code).  The original code provided is generally not important - it tends to get refactored away anyway into oblivion.  What is important is that it focuses discussion into the form of constructive and tangible input.

In this case, I have done exactly that.  List and source.  Patches welcome.

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