On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:50:55PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Then, they should click on the button they are asked to click. This > takes far less time than a long (and discourteous) rant.
Yeah... you walk out without a word, and are upset if people still care about you? MW acted like an ass here. > I know you have good intention in trying to improve the MIA process, but > I think[*] this sends the wrong message to the current volunteers: you > can act as professionally as you can, you will still get criticism from > a few people on some minor details. Can we spare our volunteers more > carefully than rude people? That's expected. The work of a mortician (MIA is basically this) is unpleasant, and having people lash at you just for doing it is the norm rather than an exception. I see no way to make Mattia's work safe from being yelled at. Anything we say here won't get to people MIA interacts with, and if any of us gets MIA-but-alive, we'd long since forgotten how we're supposed to behave (as apparently customs are different at wherever MW worked at these years). So I hope you'll grit your teeth and keep going. You may end up as grumpy as formorer -- but, notably, he still hasn't stopped his thankless unpaid work. Yes, every time you contact him about a list issue you get a reply in a tone so uncheery it can sour the milk in a cow, but what's admirable is that he _keeps getting shit done_. So in the interest of Debian, we need to keep Mattia, formorer and other folks in such roles well stocked in DebConf beer, encouraging platitudes and so on... :) Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ We domesticated dogs 36000 years ago; together we chased ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ animals, hung out and licked or scratched our private parts. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Cats domesticated us 9500 years ago, and immediately we got ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ agriculture, towns then cities. -- whitroth on /.
