CAB & SCSF, Hey what's going on?

It's been a busy week in the CAB/SCSF corner of the blogoshpere. I guess it all started with Oren's post "What I don't like the Patterns & Practices efforts". I don't know if Oren meant to be provocative, but some of his claims in that post were very much so. The post certainly had a significant effect though. Chris Holmes, an active participant on the SCSF CodePlex forum jumped to the p&p rescue with a little too personal attack on Oren in my opinion and so did Sam Gentile with this post. From there the snow ball just kept on running. Jeremy Miller joined and so did Bill Simser and Udi Dahan. After some back and forth I guess people started to feel that this is becoming a little too personal of an issue rather than a technical discussion and Chris Holmes and Sam Gentile tried to smooth things out a little here and here. Today Glenn Block from p&p wrote this post talking about the complexity of the CAB/SCSF and some of the design goals behind the framework and how p&p team work. If you use or consider to use CAB/SCSF you should definitely read through the conversations of the last week. Just ignore the personal issues and grab as much real content as possible.

All in all I believe it is good to have real discussions on the stuff that keeps us busy and brings us bread and butter. The storm seems to be over for this time and I hope we will be able to follow the conversations of Oren, Sam, Bill, Jeremy and many others who undeniably have a lot of knowledge to offer.