"James Linden" writes:
Yes, I have blocked Bowerbird from joining the PGXML list, but he is the _only_ person that I've blocked. The only reason for this is because of other people's reactions to him, not because of Bowerbird himself.
Just like we innocuate against polio, not because of polio itself, but because of other people's reactions to it?
You can at least try to extract the useful information that he does give from the flame wars they often come in. This way, you might actually LEARN something.
My stress level is high enough without listening to a self-centered egomaniac who has repeatedly stated his unwillingness to work with me.
More mud is slung on this list than on ANY other list that I'm subscribed to, but I have to admit, I'm only subscribed to about 200 active lists, so I may be missing the mud-slinging ones.
I haven't seen that at all. It really doesn't compare to debian-devel and other lists I've been on at all.
I've made no secret of my personal opinions of PG:
1) the website is a disgrace 2) the archive is poorly organized 3) the catalog system is a hack job done by unqualified people 4) the PG text format is extremely disgusting 5) PG makes volunteers work uphill to get anything done 6) the lack of quality in our content offsets any gain from it
[More wild criticisms of PG] What makes you think this is at all constructive? You use emotionally charged words--"disgrace", "hack job", "disgusting"--and criticize almost everything about PG. I think it would be much more constructive in the future to deal with one issue at a time.
We don't even provide well-suited tools for the volunteers to use to improve PG, because, oh my god, maybe the tool isn't 100% open-source! Maybe the tool has been offered to PG on a perpetual right to use for PG status, but oh, lordy, that's just not good enough.
I have no idea what the context was on this, and that would be terribly helpful. I'm sceptical to the idea that PG would turn down a great improvement on our current tools merely because they aren't open source. However, open source is about the flexibility to get the job done. There was a non-web based frontend to DP, but it had to be abandoned because the author disappeared and nobody had the source to fix it as the site changed. Having an open-source program means we can fix it, we can port it, and we don't have to worry about whether we're using it for "PG status" or for Rastko or for our private project. That's a valuable thing, and something that PG should push for when possible. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm