Too many lords, not enough stewards

Posted Feb 2, 2018 3:14 UTC (Fri) by gracinet (subscriber, #89400)
In reply to: Too many lords, not enough stewards by msnitzer
Parent article: Too many lords, not enough stewards

Sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. Maybe that was poor wording on my part (is gem that often used ironically?)

I genuinely enjoyed Neil's comment a lot for I feel it's great wisdom, not only for its pleasant self-reference or its rhetorical structure. I suppose we all know more or less that starting a fight is definitely not the good way to solve an issue, yet I'd never laid a finger on it so clearly.

Anyway, I will definitely try and think "focus, what's the goal here?" in the future to help me avoid escalating tensions in my teamwork.

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Too many lords, not enough stewards

Posted Feb 8, 2018 10:47 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> I genuinely enjoyed Neil's comment a lot for I feel it's great wisdom, not only for its pleasant self-reference or its rhetorical structure. I suppose we all know more or less that starting a fight is definitely not the good way to solve an issue, yet I'd never laid a finger on it so clearly.

As a retired maintainer, Neil speaks from experience. And the community he led is a happy one, in my experience.

Cheers,
Wol

Too many lords, not enough stewards

Posted Feb 9, 2018 2:00 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

A very happy one. It's hard to think of many other communities as collegial and helpful-to-a-fault. TeX would count, but no others I'm aware of.

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