AliceWyman said
To me, posting Ibai, Michelle and I talked about this and decided ... is bad for morale.
Michael, if you want unpaid contributors to feel part of the process then I think that the "decision" should have been posted as a "proposal". I guess I just want to know whether those of us who don't work for Mozilla have any input in these decisions.
Alice,
Please know that I respect your opinion a great deal. We may not agree on everything but I always do my best to consider what you have to say. In this case, I was careless with my words. Ibai has been working on sync articles for a few weeks and in an effort to help him get them finished up I wrote up an email with some notes about each article and Michelle and I split the work up. While we we're doing that, we saw that we were going to have the contents of one article duplicated in another. In one of the emails I suggested we archive the one article when the other was finished. Then I forgot all about that until I was reviewing articles yesterday and saw that Sync your Firefox bookmarks, history, passwords and more had a revision waiting. So I quickly posted that thread. You're right that it should have been a proposal. I'm fine with re-directing the article if we think that will be helpful for people. Now that I think about it some more, maybe we should make the whole thing a template and keep both.
These are the kinds of things I'd love to involve contributors in. I've proposed to a few individuals (since there are so few) that we try to find a convenient time to meet each week or two via video, voice or irc but no one was interested. To me it's difficult to do big picture planning asynchronously, spread out in a zillion forum threads. I think it would be way easier and effective to do it in one place, in real time. Actually, I guess I'll ask for time suggestions in another forum and just start doing it and people will be free to join in if they want.
''AliceWyman [[#post-42208|said]]''
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To me, posting ''Ibai, Michelle and I talked about this and decided ...'' is bad for morale.
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Michael, if you want unpaid contributors to feel part of the process then I think that the "decision" should have been posted as a "proposal". I guess I just want to know whether those of us who don't work for Mozilla have any input in these decisions.
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Alice,<br>
Please know that I respect your opinion a great deal. We may not agree on everything but I always do my best to consider what you have to say. In this case, I was careless with my words. Ibai has been working on sync articles for a few weeks and in an effort to help him get them finished up I wrote up an email with some notes about each article and Michelle and I split the work up. While we we're doing that, we saw that we were going to have the contents of one article duplicated in another. In one of the emails I suggested we archive the one article when the other was finished. Then I forgot all about that until I was reviewing articles yesterday and saw that [[Where can I find my Firefox Sync Key?]] had a revision waiting. So I quickly posted that thread. You're right that it should have been a proposal. I'm fine with re-directing the article if we think that will be helpful for people. Now that I think about it some more, maybe we should make the whole thing a template and keep both.
These are the kinds of things I'd love to involve contributors in. I've proposed to a few individuals (since there are so few) that we try to find a convenient time to meet each week or two via video, voice or irc but no one was interested. To me it's difficult to do big picture planning asynchronously, spread out in a zillion forum threads. I think it would be way easier and effective to do it in one place, in real time. Actually, I guess I'll ask for time suggestions in another forum and just start doing it and people will be free to join in if they want.
