search

magnusmanske / quickstatements

The official repo for the QuickStatements PHP/HTML/JS interface
https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/
GNU General Public License v3.0
41 stars 16 forks source link

Communication issues #13

Closed dpriskorn closed 3 years ago

dpriskorn commented 3 years ago

Hi. I wrote this today in the wikidata telegram channel at https://t.me/c/1224298920/45236 and as I don't like people talking behind my back, I post it here. (this was a reaction to another post)

`😅 ok, interesting. I guess I will have to live with that as I have no way to change others thoughts. 😜 I have seen no one joining me until now that I know of so you might be right that I am wasting my time here.

People have al kinds of thoughts about each other, it's none of my business. What I do care about is my thoughts and finding a way forward in harmony with my needs.

Using Magnus Manskes tools is not in harmony with my needs (for connection, for feeling sure that he values feedback from me and others), so I avoid them (I could also fork the ones I would like to maintain but I found no candidates yet) and encourage others to do the same. Together we can build good tools in good connection with each other for the best of everyone and Wikidata.

Relying on tools from a person who does not seem to want to communicate with the community at all is a really bad idea IMO no matter the quality/niceness of the tool itself. When/If Magnus decides to clean up his mess of unanswered interactions (see https://github.com/magnusmanske/quickstatements/issues/10 where he actually reacted 26 days ago, but generally he does not seem to be active in the issues section of his repos, on-wiki, or here which is a big problem if you are maintainer of something) in the repos of his tools I have no problem with starting to use his tools again.

If he askes someone for help taking over maintaining or communicating with the community that would probably work fine, but I would prefer a responsive maintainer like @smyst (wikibaseintegrator) or @dvorak (daty).`

I encourage you to start engaging when people open issues or to delegate to someone else who can have your ear so we can avoid a situation where no one knows how to contact you, you don't answer on Twitter, nor on Wikidata nor anywhere else that I'm aware of. I personally opened an issue in the end of november that I have not got a single response to, see https://github.com/magnusmanske/quickstatements/issues/9

Thanks in advance.

dpriskorn commented 3 years ago

I see you now joined the linked telegram channel. :smiley: I suggest we talk there or in private via Telegram so I'm closing this.