damn that google.  heres a sanely snipped response below.

On 7/16/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Chad Perrin <perrin / apotheon.com> wrote:

> > > Again, sorry for flipping out before, it was unwarranted.
> >
> > Fair 'nuff.
> >
> > Frankly, I'm up to my eyeballs in projects -- both my own and those to
> > which I've already committed to helping out in peripheral ways, such as
> > contributing documentation (including the fact that I'm still trying to
> > find time to go through the TenDRA compiler's documentation and start
> > writing more).  I don't have time to write the documention for every Ruby
> > library I want to use (slight exaggeration), though it'd be nice if I
> > did.  I spent the last week dealing with a webhost that kind of blew up
> > in my face, and am trying to get everything moved to a different webhost
> > now with broken database exports, et cetera.
>
> What I've found in Ruport, which was the definition of poorly
> documented until very recently, that it's really helpful to have users
> just drop by the mailing list and say "I was able to get this and that
> done but now I've hit brick wall because *foo* is undocumented.   This
> at least lets maintainers focus little bits of time on the most in
> demand sections of the system, instead of documenting things that may
> not be helpful to folks.
>
> It's amazing how little things like that can make a huge difference,
> even if it amounts to a user sending that one email and never
> responding again. (Of course, it's good to stick around too.)  This
> mailing list is not the best place for those comments, because many
> package maintainers can't keep up with the posts here. :)
>
> > Maybe in a week I'll look back at this and have the perspective to see
> > that I took what you said more harshly than intended, or more personally
> > than you intended.  When I wrote that reply, however, I just didn't
> > really take it very kindly.
>
> It's understandable.  Tensions are high on the list lately, hopefully
> things will calm down soon.
>