MOTU Application for Stefan Ebner (sebner)

[Stefan Ebner]

Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Stefan Ebner schrieb:
> > That with java was somehow more a joke ;-)
> > It also seems that you think that I just see a upstream version and
> > sync/merge
> > it blindly. This is really not the case, first I don't touch stuff like
> > a new ffmpeg version
> > because this is more like a package for some specilized people (I
> > suppose you know
> > who updates ffmpeg and that stuff in ubuntu). Second. of course I check
> > if it might
> > break something or introduce new bugs. For example:
> > We have wesnoth 1.4.5 in intrepid and I had the change (before FF) to
> > sync 1.5.x .
> > Why haven't I done it? Because the 1.5.x series is a development serie
> > and in my
> > opinion we would have gotten new features but also tons of new bugs so I
> > didn't
> > file a sync request.
>
> OK. That sounds good to me. I wasn't sure how you decided what to pick
> and what not.
>
>
> > I'm sorry for that. I was clearly overreacting and besides I never
> > really thought
> > about leaving. Speaking of Scott's answer this "I leave" was more like
> > "I would be really really
> > sad if I couldn't continue my work in the way I did it before". Well, as
> > I said everybody (including me)
> > feels/felt frustrated sometimes (which is quite normal I think) but
> > again, I never really thought of leaving.
>
> This can happen to everybody, clearly there are days where one thing
> leads to another and we overreact. Still it's important that we don't
> mess up the good atmosphere we have in the team because of
> misunderstandings or having had "a bad day".

Right.
>
> What do you think you could do the next time before sending out such an
> email? What could a general advise for everybody be?

Well, a good point would be to weight the positive and the negative points
and then decide if this is really what you want to right. If possible,
no rush
and not sending it in anger and maybe consult one's pillow one night.

Besides I don't think I'll send such a mail again and if yes (surely not
in the near future)
in a other context without anger. (e.g no time because of job, etc - but
again, really not
in the near future)
>
> Have a nice day,
>  Daniel
>
cheers