Examples of where it's done right [LWN.net]

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 0:40 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Examples of where it's done right by rhekman
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

I don't recall any Mozilla employee being anything close to harsh in any such discussions. So that seems to be a poor counter example.

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Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 7:56 UTC (Tue) by MarcB (subscriber, #101804) [Link] (3 responses)

Some employees asked him to step back in public (Twitter). That's about the harshest thing one can do, even if using the nicest words.

Those employees where a tiny minority, but that doesn't really help in the beautiful new world of social media outrage.

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 6, 2015 16:16 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

We are talking about different things, I think. One is a disagreement of leadership position and it is ok to state that out loud publicly regardless of your rationale as long as you specify it clearly. The other thing is to engage in name calling and so on.

In other words, it is ok to say, this patch is broken, can you fix it by doing foo and bar? It is unnecessarily harsh to say, you have a lousy patch and you are brain dead. Even if you are doing that to someone you know very well, it is a public list and potential contributors are lurking.

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 7, 2015 15:06 UTC (Wed) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, it's pretty much the same – if you ignore all facts.

Examples of where it's done right

Posted Oct 7, 2015 15:08 UTC (Wed) by MarcB (subscriber, #101804) [Link]

Could you elaborate on those facts?