On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 14:32, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > 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.
That seems to me to be an overreaction. In my case, I have no complaints about the purpose of the analysis. It's the excessing false positives and UI of the software that is the problem, combined with a poorly worded email. I think what needs to happen is for a detailed investigation of the results, especially for projects that have lots of hits, so that the scanning can be properly tuned. It's pretty obvious at present that the scanning is far too eager to report issues (and not just master in URLs). There also needs to be some work on the UI, to make it easier to ignore individual files, and to make it easier to actually edit the source files. There are some other issue no doubt. Once the reports are usable without lots of effort by projects, then maybe start inviting a few random projects to see if they have any feedback on the analysis. Fix any issues, and gradually increase the number of projects. It might be an idea to send a follow-up email to explain why all the projects have been removed. Though I think it would have been better to keep the projects (apart from retired ones), but send an email to say that the analyses are currently at the alpha stage, and solicit feedback on improving the scanning. That way might result in analyses that projects actually want. Sebb > 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
