In reply to Otto.

Thanks for clarifying, Otto! I saw that Mika updated the guideline in question yesterday. I understand that you don't like the idea of having guidelines in general. I think if we're going to have them at all, the tone should be revised to be more welcoming with clear expectations stated so that nobody is left wondering. It sounds like you wrote them with a knife to your throat. ;) I mean, you can tell you didn't want to write them in the first place. It would be cool to see them rewritten with a theme of "Let's all work together to make this the best place on the web to find and host WordPress plugins." :)