Conflict between developer advocates

Josh Long: To the people who find conflict, or want conflict, I would say that developer advocacy is a very small community, so don't piss in the pool. There is only a tiny pool of people doing this worldwide, in any given ecosystem. I can't imagine trying to join my particular ecosystem, with all these wonderful people, just to start picking them off and starting conflicts.

You do find that in open source you've got these very opinionated people who are motivated to focus on this stuff.

They are out there working on these projects, so I don't begrudge them for being opinionated at all. It helps to harness their passion without letting it yield conflict.

"If you pick a fight with someone, you're going to ruin the best part of this ecosystem—the community."

—Josh Long

I love our community. I would say that in the Java ecosystem, and the cloud ecosystem, there are...