<quote name="Brian Wolff" date="2014-02-16" time="18:00:29 -0400"> > 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.
See also: The general rule among many engineering departments at WMF is "If it didn't happen on the list (or somewhere similarly public and indexable) it didn't happen." The team I most recently heard champion that rule was the Mobile Team. Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
