Well, here we are. We've rolled out a tool, and gotten an angry
backlash, and here's what has become clear(er) to me:
Culture doesn't scale. Any attempt to influence culture cannot be done
on a Foundation-wide scale without causing some percentage of the
audience to respond with anger, resentment, or offense.
The irony of causing offense in the question to remove offense is, of
course, not lost on me. Words are hard, as I keep saying in so many places.
While I continue to believe that this is an important initiative, and I
believe that we, the "community over code" people should be the ones
leading this initiative, it appears that we have fumbled the launch of
this, and folks are, once again, angry and insulted that we are pointing
out potential problems in their projects.
Perhaps the best way forward is to remove all of the repositories that
have been added to the tool, and see if any projects approach us to add
their repos back.
Meanwhile, I will resume my one-on-one approach to projects, which I
have now been doing for about a year and a half, and which approach will
take me approximately 7 years at this pace. You're welcome to join me.
--
Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
@rbowen
