[impdev] official contact person

[Morgaine]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <oz at lindenlab.com
> wrote:

> If I have something that needs to be dealt with, I am not interested in
> sending mail to a list of people



You're not interested in *sending mail to a list of people* ... but open
source teams are not working for you nor for your interest, Oz.  Nor for
LL's interest.

You know how open source works very well.  You are not doing a very good
job of presenting that M.O. to those in LL who don't know how open source
works, and who make up silly demands.  Make a stand on behalf of open
source, and tell them how it works.

An open source team may or may not have a nominated spokeperson or contact
person or person to blame --- it's 100% up to them.  It's not up to LL.


Morgaine.



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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <oz at lindenlab.com
> wrote:

> On 2011-11-08 3:31, Morgaine wrote:
>
>> It's an open source project, a viewer developed by an open source team,
>> not by one controlling person.  Why would any one person need to be
>> nominated as special, and made the burden of contact and responsibility?
>>
>> Should "any issue need to be addressed", it seems to me that it would be
>> very reasonable to address the issue to the team, don't you think?
>>
>
> No, actually, I don't.   If I have something that needs to be dealt with,
> I am not interested in sending mail to a list of people who may or may not
> think that whatever it is is something they personally need to respond to.
>  Nor do I want to have objections raised later that I didn't contact the
> "right" person, especially since the team itself may not agree on who that
> is.
>
>  You know how open source works, Oz.  As the representative of open source
>> within the Lab, perhaps you can explain it to those people who don't
>> understand it internally and are trying to impose inappropriate
>> hierarchical structure on third parties.
>>
>
> Neither I nor the rest of Linden Lab cares how the project organizes
> itself internally or how it makes decisions - use whatever organization or
> lack of it works.  What we do care about is having clear lines of
> communication - by which we mean having a single point of contact
> responsible for the communication; at the Linden Lab end, that's me and I
> need someone at the Imprudence end.  I don't care if that person is a
> dictator or a peon, so long as everyone agrees that they are the right
> person for me to contact on behalf of the project, and that contacting them
> constitutes contacting the project (so you'd all better trust whoever it
> is).
>
>
>
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