[Wikimedia-l] Patience

[Fred Bauder]

> I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such
> as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's
> sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics
> and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an
> appropriate mix of patience and impatience, and people should be
> appropriately accountable for their performance.
>
> Pine
>

Fine, so long as people don't make emergencies out of things that could
very well be carefully considered and decided. We are not [plug in name
of political idiot].

Fred