On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Chris Mattmann <mattm...@apache.org> wrote:
> So seriously, we're going to send now 4 emails talking about what a user of 
> Apache Cassandra and possible community member could have done right or 
> better or sooner, or that there is no time limit to moderating shit when it 
> could have been as simple as literally sending a confirmation email to 
> moderate it through? This is the definition of process over community. And 
> it's the definition (wrongly so) of why people think it's "Apache" that 
> induces the processes that make shit hard, and not the community itself. 
> Seriously this is a joke. So what if she didn't do it right the first time. 
> You think potentially moderating her mail through and then sending a kind 
> email suggesting she look at the instructions for how to subscribe, which oh 
> someone may not have found easy to do or simply not understood that simply 
> sending an email to the list wouldn't have made it go through the first time? 
> Is it that hard to figure out? Really?
>
> This is the definition of making things hard and not making them easy or 
> friendly. And this is also exactly what enables people to sound off on 
> Twitter about a project, and loses the conversation that could have been had 
> on Apache mailing lists. Kelly has been tweeting for days. I saw her tweets 
> retweeted by someone in my feed, and yesterday asked her kindly to bring her 
> conversation to the list. 12 hours later it's still in moderation, and we are 
> arguing whether to f'ing moderate it through. Wow. Great job.

Wait, what?  As a moderator of this list (unpaid, volunteer), did I
miss the SLA I was being held to?  Are you volunteering to moderate
this list?


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Eric Evans
john.eric.ev...@gmail.com

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