On 8 August 2014 01:29, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 August 2014 00:56, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> I'll stand by what I said previously. The
community liaisons (two Is) are
> currently in the role of trying to sell the community on bad software.
> Good software, surprisingly, doesn't need hired "community liaisons"
to
> roam around the large wikis to explain and defend its virtues. If you
> want to respond to the substantive point, please do. Otherwise, I don't
> really think it's fair nor productive to simply make appeals to emotion.
They've got two roles. They've got to try and
get the developers to try and
introduce their changes in the way thee community accepts. They've also got
the role of keeping the community informed about what is going on. Given
that the developers want their software to be accepted (and lets face it
the community has a conservative element) there is a lot of pressure in the
direction of PR tactics.
Unfortunately - and we quite definitely saw this in the VE
introduction - it leaves a lot of them in the position of customer
service ablative firewall, the designated targets of people's
frustration.
- d.