On Feb 16, 2014 2:04 PM, "Jon Robson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of > expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal > supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over > video conferencing or similar to understand the problems being hit and > helped them work through them? Email doesn't seem to have been an effective > method of communication in this situation as you have pointed out. Maybe > you can help with documenting these issues and helping people like yourself > understand the problems and why this change was reverted? >
I've seen setiment like this (discuss in person, in hangout, or otherwise privately) pop up recently (e.g on [1]). I think attitudes like that are a real problem. Supposedly we are an open community. People should be entirely prepared to explain their reasoning for doing anything on a public mailing list no matter if the request comes from a wmf staffer like Brad, or if it comes from somebody you have never heard of before. In fact i would argue that the criteria and results of evaluations should be public on the wiki from the get go, without anyone even asking for it. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57659 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
