Becoming Effective

[Allison Randal]

On 02/08/2012 10:20 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> 
> Not too want to sound too harsh but it feels like to me, that the 30
> minutes/1 hour or so people on the ARB could spend helping with the
> queue has instead be used to read long e-mail discussions lately.
> 
> I definitely don't have any issue with the Community team trying to help
> the ARB, I just want to state what some people have been telling me in
> private. Flooding the members with information, wiki pages, e-mails, ...
> is not the right way to help us.
> 
> At this point, making sure the Software-Center in Ubuntu 11.10 works
> properly with MyApps, getting our MyApps issues prioritized and fixed
> sounds to me like our main priorities.
> 
> Spending hours discussing processes is fine when we have time, like at
> UDS (and even so, just 1 or 2 sessions please!) but for the rest, you
> have to realize members are spending some of their limited free time on
> the ARB and that can either be spent in reading/answering long
> discussions or on getting stuff done.

I have to agree. The stream of emails lately are not only unhelpful, the
negativity is actually killing motivation. I really appreciate the
interest from your Community Team, Jono, but the ARB is not managed by
your team. If you have a problem with our work, please take it up with
the TB or CC. Otherwise, please leave us alone so we can focus on
catching up on the queue.

Allison