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Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:12:29 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> You can't fix it by beating people up. |
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Volunteers do it on their own terms... or don't do it. The outliers can |
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be moderated to some degree and thankfully the list isn't what it once |
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was, but get too strict and people simply find other things to do. Of |
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course there's a line where letting them find something else to do is |
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best, and some have crossed it, but... |
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> 1. While perhaps a different leader might give people a warmer feeling |
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> about it, I think many of these issues are just inherent to the nature |
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> of the problem - PM features don't write themselves. Others might |
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> disagree, and that is fine. |
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> 2. I don't see anybody else stepping up. |
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Good points. (Whole post actually, but snipped for brevity.) To some |
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extent, the job of coordinating PMS is going to be a (nearly) thankless |
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task, and it does take a specific kind of person to keep at it. Not |
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everybody's cut out for it. You're right, others /aren't/ stepping up |
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for it and I can't blame them. Thanks for pointing out what we likely |
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all knew if we thought about it, but many (me included) sometimes forget. |
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Back to my original point, tho. Seeing people working on other PMs make |
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the point as well, helps, and I hope to see both a bit more of that and |
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more reminders of it in other subthreads/replies, where appropriate. I |
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know that helps me keep a bit better perspective. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |