I guess what I don't really get is why Ulrich couldn't just post a simplified explanation for the code he checked in. As one commenter put it, to an outside ob

I guess what I don't really get is why Ulrich couldn't just post a simplified explanation for the code he checked in. As one commenter put it, to an outside observer Ulrich comes across as an arse. Even if the technical explanation can't really be simplified effectively, then conveying the impetus for the change would probably have diffused the thread. He wasted more time ordering people to stop opening the bug than he would have spent explaining himself.