[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

[Cary Bass]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

stevertigo wrote:
> I'm proposing that we start a resolution-l mailing list.
>
> Yes, I know we talked about it a month ago, to the tune of about
> 100 posts, and it seemed that it wasn't going anywhere. But that
> was just appearances. The reality is that the support was
> substantial, the opposition was sub-articulate, and whatever
> substantive criticism there was was largely based in some assumed
> misconceptions about its scope (Thomas).
>
> The real truth is that we have been waiting for Cary to fulfill one
> of his many duties and create the list. That having failed, we have
> been waiting on Cary to tell us why he has not. That also having
> failed, we instead have just been waiting a month for Cary to say
> anything at all. And he recently did, though there was little
> substance in it, other than a threat to close the bug request.
> Which in fact, he just did close as WONTFIX:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19414 . I'm sure he
> thinks he's doing the right thing. Still, despite our recent
> differences, we should welcome Cary's actual participation in our
> discussion. Thank you Cary, we understand that you were just too
> busy to give this proper consideration.
>
I did give it proper consideration. I apologize for treating you
special and not having responded to you directly. Most people give
bugzilla's requests as well as emails to the respondent some time to
respond before they post allegations about the person responsible to
foundation-l. Apparently you felt this had a higher priority than I
did, although you could not find anyone to agree with you, which is
why you posted to foundaiton-l, and you could not find anyone to agree
with you there either, and further got yourself banned from that list
for perpetually bringing it up.

I would suggest you stop creating a controversy where there is none by
posting unsubstantiated insinuations about me on a public mailing list
which is archived and googled by using poisonous language such as "And
he recently did, though there was little substance in it," which
inherently fail to endear me to your cause any further.

- --
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAkpvTOUACgkQyQg4JSymDYl3MACgyXbk5SQdJKtj7OOuJkRWiM/N
qWkAoM276pysFvzeZVK0mGsM1lM6E7gV
=10iW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----