On 14/09/2007, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Either comment is fine with me - both accurately portray my feelings towards the current management at Foundation level.
Someone I rather admire and respect has expressed a firm dislike towards this post, and I must admit that, of late, I've been posting increasing numbers of snide, unsupported remarks which provide hollow attacks against the Foundation, and I appreciate that this isn't fair.
There are indeed a great number of things I perceive to be going wrong at a management level, and a great number of things that need to be improved, but there are also a great number of things that, on the whole, I agree with - a rigid principle of providing free information for all, for example.
I'll freely state here and now that I don't agree with the management of many side-projects, particularly those which concern the development/operations teams as a whole - to provide a concrete example; I don't think that the implementation of single-user login has been managed correctly (as in, I feel adding workload to an already overloaded CTO is not the way to implement a special project) - and I've discussed my feelings on this point with other operations staff from time to time.
Nevertheless, individual, snide posts without any constructive or otherwise detailed criticism are completely worthless, and I will refrain from making them, especially on this list, which after all, is not the place to be doing it.
With apologies to all,
Rob Church