Stephan, thank you for speaking up. It's incredibly frustrating and
demoralizing when you work really hard on a gift (all volunteer
contributions are gifts) and you just hear nothing back, or maybe just
criticism with not even a thank-you. I'm sorry that this happened to you,
that out of dozens of comments, nearly none even explicitly acknowledged
and appreciated your effort, and that you had long stretches where you were
waiting for a response.
It is absolutely your right to take a break from the frustrations of this
project and especially from the abrasions of our code review process. I
hope you come back, though, and I hope the Wikimedia technical community
makes it appealing for you to come back.
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Stephan Gambke <s7eph4n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, last attempt.
This needs merge:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/151370/
Somebody shat on it (-2), so it looks ugly, sorry for that.
Didn't come back to clean up their mess, either, instead told me to
advertise it here.
Sorry for putting it like this, in particular with the Sumana's thread
right next to it, but really, I am fed up. The way this went lets all
that clamoring for contributors sound rather hollow, to my ears at
least - they are quite obviously not welcome. I mean being ignored
because everybody is apparently super busy is one thing. But being
made to jump through hoop after hoop for weeks and then being ignored
does feel less like being ignored and more like being made fun of. It
will be a long time until I waste my time again on trying to get some
patch merged.
Stephan
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