On 17 August 2012 14:22, Faidon Liambotis faidon@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:05:24AM -0400, MZMcBride wrote:
"the mess you made".
Right there, in that phrase, you have aggressively indicated the
following:
I didn't intend to indicate most of that, of course. That said, system
I've been silent because others seemed to handle it. But I can't anymore. Your initial mail was disturbing enough. Your complete lack of understanding of what multiple people are saying to you and the lack of an apology are even worse.
Your words hurt people, created a bad precedent of aggressive behavior and are counter-productive. Please stop this.
I think it's important to keep things in perspective, and not to overreact.
What seems to have happened here, is that one action has broken many (all?) links to Mailman archives. That, in my book, is a mess. The question was, to that someone who made the mess, what his plan was to clean it up.
What should happen right now is *cleaning up the mess*. The more time is spent in butthurt and drama, the more *new* mess there is to clean up, once the old mess is cleaned up.
As far as I can see the easiest wat to go about this, is to dig up backups, salt the messages that originally needed to be "deleted" with spaces or *** or whatever (and add a note to the effect of "this was done because of *reason*), and then rebuild the archives so the permalinks are not broken anymore.
And then go in and fix whatever permalinks were fixed in the meantime.
This needs to happen fast. Once it's been done, there's all the time in the world for recriminations and drama and new guidelines and rules of conduct and whatnot.
Michel