Tom, I have to strongly disagree.
As I've pointed out, bullies flourish when they can act unseen. This is
personality disordered behavior (if I may put on my professional hat for
a moment). It's due to lack of appropriate internal controls to
structure behavior. The solution that works is not to yield ground but
to provide external structure. Put plainly, that is about push back. One
doesn't need to get riled. _One just needs to get clear, then act._ His
behavior is unacceptable. Period. (And that's putting it politely.)
The next person he does this to may be a 12 year old struggling to get a
grip on the software and making a mess of it. You want to turn him loose
to have at her? Really? I don't think you, and others, have really
thought this through.
He knows he's being watched, and yet he acts as if there is no problem
for him at all. Why? _Because there isn't_. That needs to change.
I suggest two solutions: he should be banished from the list. If he
comes back, repeat as needed.
And, until action is taken, all inappropriate emails from him or anyone
else should be forwarded to the list. "No cover for bullies," as I've
already said.
I've dealt with people like this on other lists, in my neighborhood, at
work (my boss!), and in adolescent treatment centers and mental
hospitals. It's always the same drill. One warning, then you lower the
boom, decisively. Someone WILL be in control: it's them or it us. We
have to decide.
I DO expect an appropriate and effective response from this list, not
some ineffectual roll-over.
Tom
On 05/04/2014 07:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Various lists have had discussions about that sort of thing in general
and about the specific case. It's a tricky one to handle but i figure
the best on-list way is to just not get riled by his on-list replies.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 4 May 2014 13:27, Tom Cloyd <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Tom -
On 05/04/2014 05:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi Tom :)
Good answers to Urmas there. Considerate, understanding and
light-hearted. Nicely done! :)
I was allowing for the possibility that he wasn't serious. Turns
out not to be true.
I've almost never found 'professional' proprietary stuff to be
any better than OpenSource.
My experience exactly.
Indeed a new study by an independant security company found that
OpenSource had slightly less errors per 1,000 lines of code.
There is also the usual faster response time to fixing issues due
to even mere normal users being able to report issues quickly and
fairly easily and perhaps even getting involved in solving the
problem and discovering coding skills.
*Faster response time:* Yes. I've been running the latest alpha
build. My "vector M" nonsense problem is gone. But there was a
problem with row sorting crashing the program. I just installed
the very latest Master, on the advice of the dev replying to my
bug report. Now THAT problem appears to be gone. This is all very
cool.
*Getting involved: *Yes, also.**I'm learning the bug reporting
interface and protocol, in the process. Is easy enough. Looks like
I've found a way I can contribute, with my very limited time.
That, too, is very cool.
Now we just need to get right of the Urmas bullying bug and we'll
be all set. I'll be watching that one especially closely.
t.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 4 May 2014 00:39, Tom Cloyd <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
No I didn't. It went fine. I've been using it all day. Some
problems have arisen, but I'm working through them and trying
to find the pattern so I can report them usefully.
t.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:08 PM, NoOp <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
On 05/02/2014 07:19 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Stuart,
>
> Update and status report - good news! -
>
> 1. I've installed Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha1 Build ID:
> 46cfcd5a05aa1d13fecd73f5a25b64b8d8dd6781.
Did you by chance experience any dependency errors during
your install?
See:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7823>
(Dependency errors with
LibreOfficeDev_4.3.0.0.alpha1_Linux_x86-64_deb
install)
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