I have a quick question regarding voting. I know that as far as releases go there are binding and non binding votes. Does this carry over to PR votes and other [VOTE] threads or is it solely for the purpose of releasing (legal binding)?
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello people, > > TinkerPop has transitioned to a new plateau where all JIRA tickets are > open to [DISCUSS] and VOTE. This is a great thing in many respects -- > however, with great power, comes great responsibility. > > Please note how many emails I write a day to keep up with the policy > requirements. Every email I write is time that takes me away from being a > "worker" to being a "manager." You can do the "workers" of TinkerPop a > great favor by ensuring you don't abuse your powers and become a pure > "manager." What do I mean by that? > > 1. Being "engaged" doesn't mean asking questions so someone has to > answer just to keep a discussion going. > 2. Being "engaged" doesn't mean having an opinion on every topic > just for the sake of saying something. > > For me, engagement means doing work. This is the difference between being > a person who "talks" (manager) and a person who "does" (worker). If you > want to help TinkerPop, think about: > > 1. Writing a tutorial, blog post, article, etc. > 2. Finding a ticket you can work on and doing it well. > 3. Finding your niche in the codebase and dominating on it --- > documentation, tests, etc. > 4. Going through the pull requests and VOTEing. > 5. Answering questions on the mailing list. > 6. Studying the codebase and learning how it works so you can > answer your own questions. > > In general, use your time effectively. And at minimal, don't casually > spend the attention/time of the people who are "working." This doesn't mean > that we don't DISCUSS and we don't VOTE, it means, be strategic in your use > of other people's time --- and best of all, your own time! > > Thank you, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > P.S. I know there is a sense of "we have to show the mentors we are doing > stuff so I will reply to emails and JIRA tickets and have nick nack > comments on every pull request." Don't be fake. If you do that, you will > find nothing at the end of that road save for a brain full of other > people's thoughts and that is useless to that which is, and always has been > -- The TinkerPop.
