From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 2 18:58:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05340 for current-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA05335 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09852; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:55:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705030155.SAA09852@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: -current build is now broken.. To: donegan@quick.net (Steven P. Donegan) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:55:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Steven P. Donegan" at May 2, 97 06:14:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > John, where I work if you bring up a 'problem' or 'issue' guess what - > > > you own it. > > > > That must be remarkably effective in discouraging people from bringing > > up problems -- no matter how critical or damaging to your employer... > > Not really, it tends to keep people focused on need-to-haves rather than > want-to-haves. Works quite well in a team environment where everyone is > already 200% overloaded. And I thought it might work with a volunteer > group that is focused on producing new things that work rather than > making old, now potentially obsolete, things work in somewhat weird ways. > Sorry if I offended anyone. I'll keep my ideas to myself since I've now > been discouraged from expressing them :-) Well, it's called "limiting events while engaging in crisis management"; it's the "crisis management" part that results in people being 200% overloaded in the first place. Feel free to keep posting; I'm not offended (just hoping that you are the competition). 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.