Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
With all due respect, that's certainly the company line. I spend plenty of time w/CAT:CSD - we're not inundated in a way that required such a breathless, panicky, rushed situation like we ended up with.
Rushed? People had been asking for G11 for as long as I can remember. It was going to happen sooner or later anyway, and a firm steer from Foundation that spam, abuse of Wikipedia resources for self-promotion, is an abuse and should be stamped on, is hardly a controversial idea.
I'm referring more to the post-Patrick handling more than the typical cries for expansions of various criteria for speedy deletion.
Of course, we're deathly afraid of anything that might actually benefit someone outside of the project, to boot, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised by the general Office/Foundation reaction. I just chalk it up to another one of those bizarre deals.
You have a strange view of things. The entire project is for the benefit of people outside the foundation, mainly people like you and me and my kids.
I don't think so. Look at how we handled Kohs and the Microsoft issue and our COI guideline/policy - it's not meant to be flamebait, Kat, thank you very much, but it's sometimes realy sad how we handle things that may actually beenfit us as well as outside people financially.
-Jeff