<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Quim Gil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qgil@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">qgil@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Invite angry users to become active contributors, converting their arguments in isolated bugs or enhancement requests in Bugzilla. Make them part of the development process.<br>
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Bugzilla (and bug reporting in general) helps to analyze a problem, divide it into chunks, declare dependencies, declare relations to other issues in other projects, declare priorities and urgency. It is also clear when somebody is working on a report or not, when it is still open for discussion or WONTFIX. And whenever someone else comes with the same argument you can decide whether to just resolve as DUPLICATE or reopen the issue because better arguments have been exposed.<br>
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There can be a lot of anger in Bugzilla reports, but it is more difficult to sustain pointless anger there than in angry wiki Talk pages. And you can CC us, and we will help. :)</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Well, my point was that there are plenty of community members who just want us to stop working on the things we're working on and/or to work on something else that's unrelated to the guiding principles of our organization. If we pointed them to Bugzilla, their bug would be "Kill Flow development" :)</div>
<div><br></div><div style>But maybe that's one useful heuristic for "user who shares enough common ground to engage with us in a productive conversation" – can this person's request translate into a bug, feature request, or enhancement? If not, then there's not much use in talking further.</div>
<div style> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Maryana Pinchuk<br>Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a><br></div>
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