Comments on: Purpose of an election

By: David Bolter

David Bolter — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:18:59 +0000

Og, thanks for pointing me to these blog comments and the relevance to my post: http://mindforks.blogspot.com/2007/11/transparency-in-community-decisions.html

Note: Mozilla tracks syndication requests with its bugzilla and it seems to work out okay.

By: Ideas

Ideas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:57:16 +0000

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By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:04:26 +0000

Good morning Olav; I was wondering, why don’t we start a new thread going in the foundation mailing list suggesting bugzilla as a means to request entry to the Planet? What do you think?

Cheers,

By: ovitters

ovitters — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:41:13 +0000

Og: instead of the ticketing system I suggested Bugzilla (‘same difference’). The ticketing system is not a good choice (bad UI, tickets not visible to everyone, etc). Bugzilla should be suited perfectly (some people won’t like to create an account for that though, but too bad). See the ‘website’ product (perhaps additional s). Jeff didn’t respond when I mentioned this on the foundation mailing list.
For various reasons unfortunely we do need the ‘not visible to everyone’ part for sysadmin/account tasks. At one point I hope to replace that with Bugzilla though (lot of work, not enough time, etc).

By: Og Maciel

Og Maciel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:50:23 +0000

Hi Olav, thank you for your last comment and this update. I definitely never meant that people shouldn’t voice their opinion and only wish Murray had chosen his words a bit more carefully. Now, there is obviously something wrong going on that needs some serious investigation, and I intend to get to the bottom of it. After reading some more posts I started to wonder why wasn’t the “admission” to the Planet ever dealt with the ticketing system? This way things are transparent and there is a “paper trail” to hold people accountable.

Anyhow, thanks again for your comment.

By: juanpablo

juanpablo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:16:55 +0000

I’m talking, of course, about Jeff.

By: juanpablo

juanpablo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:15:57 +0000

You are right. And in his current state (http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/11/27/a-response-to-the-cacophony/): “depressed” “lacking motivation or satisfaction in his everyday life”, working only as “a teraphy”, he might be (is) a great developer but also the worst director.

By: Clarification

Clarification — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:10 +0000

[...] seems that my post didn’t quite express what I really meant and some people have even decided no to vote for me because of it. Wow… For instance, my good friend Luis [...]