Le 30/04/2014 18:11, Mike Hoye a écrit :
On 2014-04-30, 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I think these are bad excuses. The right thing being hard is never a
good excuse for not doing the right thing. If that means hiring more
people, or mobilizing more community members to achieve that goal, or
lose a few months of good statistics, so be it.
The Open Web isn't suffering from a shortage of Right Things That Need
Doing right now, but time and money aren't infinite and there are places
that we can put employee and community effort that are way more
important to Mozilla's mission and the future of the Internet than
bailing out of Google Analytics.
If you'd like to know what those things are, and how you can help,
contact me! We have a ton of stuff that needs doing, and you can learn
about them in a bunch of places:
- Coding opportunities?
Take a look at http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and
Follow StartMozilla on Twitter at https://twitter.com/startmozilla/
- Helping test stuff?
Take a look at https://oneanddone.mozilla.org/ or
Try using a pre-release version of Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/aurora/
And that's just scratching the surface.
If you want to personally opt out of participating in Google Analytics,
everywhere, there's an addon for that here:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
... but if we get to the point where that's the most important thing, or
even one of the top twenty most important things, that Mozilla can put
time and resources towards? That'll be a pretty remarkable day, if you'd
like to help us get there.
- mhoye
Mike,
This is not a acceptable answer.
Obviously you don't know Benoit. He has been deeply involved in the
Mozilla project for at least 10 years, he is one of our core localizers
for French, he was there when there was no money, no employee and we had
to build products on our own machines. He probably did more for mozilla
as a volunteer than many did as employees.
Lecturing a core contributor, a volunteer that devoted countless hours
of work for free for Mozilla over a decade, on, I cite « Right Things
That Need Doing right now, but time and money aren't infinite and there
are places that we can put employee and community effort that are way
more important to Mozilla's mission and the future of the Internet than
bailing out of Google Analytics. » is hurting me deeply as a mozillian.
He is not some random would-be volunteer making unreasonable requests.
Dismissing his opinion and lecturing him on priorities saying that we
have bigger fishes to fry and that you can assign him bugs and tasks to
help him achieve your goals if he is bored is just plain rude and
disrespectful. Disrespectful to him and our community. And by community,
I mean core contributors that made Mozilla what it is today. If as
employees we dismiss the opinion of the very people that helped create
Mozilla, our most active core community of volunteers, that's a problem.
His email is a reasonable request, I am pretty sure some employees also
share his opinion, if we want to be serious about Mozilla as a global
organization in which our community opinion counts in the decision
process, then we can't behave as if only quarterly goals matter, we
can't have employees explaining our community that they don't get it. If
we can't listen to our core commmunity, the people that are on the
ground with our users, on the very sensitive topic of privacy, on the
*governance* group, then there is something wrong that needs to be fixed.
Pascal
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