On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Dan Stillman <dstill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/15 8:33 PM, Sheeri Cabral wrote: > Mozilla is both a company and one of the world's most successful > open-source projects. It's nice that you work for the former, but the rest > of us are trying to contribute to the latter. Let me clarify, speaking as someone who has been a longtime contributor of countless hours to a different open source community, with a product owned by a company much larger than 1,000 employees - saying that Mozilla employees work hard and are experts *in no way* is trying to say that volunteers are lesser. Volunteers to open source also work hard, and with no compensation. It's often a thankless job, with little external incentive. Open source volunteers are driven by passion, and it's awesome to be a part of an ecosystem with so many awesome volunteers. There's respectfully asking "why was this decision made?" and "sharing concerns" and then there's aggressively hounding with a never-ending stream of questions. I feel like, at this point, as explanations have been given, this conversation is tipping into the latter. Saying, "hey, these people are experts, are you an expert in this particular field?" is NOT an insult. My specialty is databases, and if I started hounding Finance, it's perfectly reasonable for someone to point out that hey, I'm not a Finance expert, maybe those people know just a bit more than I do, and I should accept what they're saying, even if I don't agree with it or 100% understand it. In fact, it's someone pointing out that perhaps I should have compassion and respect. Asking me to respect others is not an insult to me. -- -Sheeri Cabral Manager, Data Team at Mozilla File a bug for the Data Team - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Data%20%26%20BI%20Services%20Team Find the Data team on #data on irc.mozilla.org _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
