The tips'n'tools development effort is a kind of personal process just like open source (or not) software projects. Your code and ideas behind it will be carefully reviewed, maybe resulting in critique and criticism. The review will sometimes require improvements to the code before it can be included in the project. Know that this happens because everyone involved wants to see cool and useful features for the project.
If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. If so, please contact core maintainer at [email protected], or the individual members, or create an issue, and they will work to resolve the issue to the best of their ability.
As a reviewer of code, please strive to keep things civil and focused on the technical issues involved. We are all humans, and frustrations can be high on both sides of the process.