I feel uncomfortable ignoring this kind of response on this or any list, so I will say this at the risk of being personally attacked.
I'm certain that treating people this way detracts from both motivation and productivity - for volunteers and staff alike. Responses like this lack any sense of professionalism, and are certainly better off discarded than sent. Life is too short to be so easily angered and impatient. - Trevor On Aug 15, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > dan nessett wrote: >> On the other hand, maybe you would rather code than think >> strategically. Fine. Commit yourself to fixing the parser so all of >> the disabled tests run and also all or most of the pages on >> Wikipedia do not break and I will shut up about the CPRT. Commit >> yourself to creating a test harness that other developers can use >> to write unit tests and I will gladly stop writing emails about it. >> Commit yourself to develop the software the organizes the unit >> tests into a product regression test that developers can easily run >> and I will no longer bother you about MW QA. > > Maybe you should apply for the CTO job, if you get it then you'll be > able to make such demands for my time. > > For the time being I'll continue to develop my own priorities, in > consultation with Wikimedia management and the community, and you can > continue to post your stirring diatribes. Right now, we urgently need > review, deployment and release, and I'm not going to delay any of that > just to make you shut up. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
