On Dec 19, 2007 6:41 PM, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 5:00 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
There's a difference between people chosing to leave the project, and a project where the usual mode of leaving for experienced participants is an antagonistic conflict incident blowing up.
Not to say I'm not concerned, but is that really the "usual" mode of leaving? Certainly it can get a lot of attention, and it's easier to keep track of, but I'm not sure where the numbers would be, on that one.
Fair comment.
I have not endeavored to try to measure or keep statistics. This is ancedotal evidence not statistical.
Also, if people are exploding, I'd imagine that resolving the immediate issue which led to the explosion is only treating a symptom. Since they probably exploded after a good deal of building up stress, the source of building stress may be our greater concern. Band-aids can work wonders, but they won't solve underlying problems.
...trouble, of course, few seem to agree on what those underlying problems are.
I think there is interest from and in lots of directions.
There are interlinked problems of getting enough agreement on particular problems being significant, how to address them, and getting a critical mass of people working to fix them. All of the steps involved are typically failing over the last year, in my ancedotal experience. The reason I keep bringing this up is to try and encourage attention and interest in cooperating on addressing them.