On 14/09/2007, Rob Church <robchur(a)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