RE: [mb-style] State of the Style Secretary

> But do not piss me off with hints that entering tickets does
> not make style issues get approved faster ;-) ;-) ha ha, or
> with stuff like this  

I think, another chapter of MisunderstandingDonRedman, or more generally
MisunderstandingOtherMusicBrainerz needs to be written. MB is such a
delicate social environment, and things said can be interpreted wrongly, or
even as personal attacks very easily, if it is communicated by means of
big-latency communication like e-mail. (I had a similar situation @work
lately, and it was only resolved after talking to the people involved
directly) The thing i learnt from that experience is that if you are angry
about something, or if you feel someone does not treat you with respect, do
not use e-mail as a means of communication, but seek contact directly. We
have the IRC which works very good IMO as a direct communication channel, so
why not try to resolve things there?

Since we have chatlogs available, i don't see why everything "official"
needs to be communicated in the mailing lists. It should be interesting to
see if we could meet in IRC to resolve style issues, discuss the questions
and come up with a decision in a matter of minutes. If something comes up
which needs to be investigated, you would postpone the decision to another
"session", where everyone would meet up again and present the new
findings/arguments to the case (have i been watching too many "TV Judge
Programs"?) ;)

Such a decision/dicussion would be no less official if it were done on the
mailing list, but would achieve results in a 100x faster way, and thus the
potential for frustration on any side would be much smaller.

What do you think?
g0llum


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