On Dec 19, 2007 6:41 PM, Luna <lunasantin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 5:00 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com