Matt Aimonetti, the author of the presentation, is not an Apache CouchDB committer. He is a Merb and Rails developer: - http://merbist.com/about/ http://merbi

Matt Aimonetti, the author of the presentation, is not an Apache CouchDB committer. He is a Merb and Rails developer: - http://merbist.com/about/ http://merbist.com/about/ This controversy is very much about the Rails community. It's the Rails community leaders who are defending Matt. If this had been an Apache committer you would have seen a clear and swift apology from the ASF and likely a huge mailing list thread about how this behavior isn't helpful.