From: John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com>
Subject: Re: How to waste everyone's time and give the ARC process
a bad rep (was Re: star access control
[PSARC/2008/176...])
Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> What should we have done?
After the first dozen messages, when it was clear that the project
as proposed wasn't as simple as it was assumed, the project team's
sponsor could have taken the discussion offline to private email,
phone calls or IRC to capture and resolve things. The discussion
may have needed to happen, but it didn't need to happen in such a
large forum.
One of the abilities of a senior engineer is the ability to cut
thru the crap, gather the right set of people together and resolve
issues rather than passively letting them grow and fester. IMO.
Not to mention that I need to get better at it myself....
I believe that the discussion dragged on from bending over backwards
to attempt to be fair to a notoriously squeaky wheel. Until such time
as we're prepared to ostracize people who exhibit those
characteristics, I think we need to err in this direction rather than
the other.
-- Glenn
