[PLUG] Rationale for my actions: I am not a 'rogue admin'.

[Robby Russell]

My favorite part on the website is how its says, "I" everywhere.
and in the meta tags... all Karl.
for instance this page, http://www.pdxlinux.org/resources/consultants.html

It says, " I am taking a break to think over how to implement this
feature..."

When did the PLUG site become Karls personal project? If you use words
like "I" everywhere, it represents the PLUG site as a personal site.

If you're going to type in temporary content, use words like "WE" or "The
Web Team will be considering various methods to implement these
features..."

Not "I"

-Robby

<?echo Jeme A Brelin managed to take the time to type out the following:
>
> On 8 Jan 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> So the rabble rousers have managed to convince you that I am some sort
>> of rouge administrator?
>
> Nah, if you were red, you wouldn't be so insistent on controlling
> everything yourself.
>
>> If you question my ability as a systems administrator, I invite you to
>> ask for a login account on that machine, so you can look around and
>> see how it is configured and maintained.
>
> You've totally missed the point.  Consistently, you've missed this
> point.
>
> Nobody is questioning your technical expertise nor your prowess as a
> programmer, system administrator, or web developer.
>
> This is not a technical issue and it cannot be solved by a script,
> module, or application server.
>
>> I'm NOT going to resign my duties as the PLUG server's administrator.
>> This email is to provide rationale for my actions, so everyone please
>> read it, and don't hit reply until you've read it all (some of you
>> need to read it twice first).
>
> Your "rationale" is only a technical one.  You explain your technical
> reasons for making technical decisions.  You do not explain why you felt
> you had (and still feel you have) the authority to wipe the PLUG website
> and update it in your own timeframe, retain exclusive control of the cvs
> repository, grant access privileges at your personal discretion, and
> have the final word on all choices regarding the server, the site, and
> the project.
>
> It might run just great (though, I'm not convinced it does).  Mousilini
> made the trains run on time.  If all you want is EFFECTIVENESS, then
> dictatorial rule is a top choice.  If you want freedom, high morale,
> respect, dignity, and community, dictatorial rule is just about the
> worst method you could choose.  I think PLUG is more committed to the
> latter than the former.  The outrage of the majority of the respondents
> on the topic bolsters this belief in me.
>
>> I've not done anything wrong.  I simply did my job.
>
> You seized the job and removed the authority of the group and replaced
> it with your own.
>
> [irrelevant technical data deleted]
>
>> Note that the person who believe I had put my resume at the top of the
>> site was mistaken.  My resume is at the top of
>> http://people.pdxlinux.org/~karlheg, not at the top of
>> http://www.pdxlinux.org/ as he had so graciously insinuated. ;)
>
> A link to your personal site is in the top line of the website's index
> page when viewed in lynx which interprets the <link href="">
> construction exactly the same as a <a href=""> construction.  So it's a
> link to your homepage, not a link to your resume directly.  But
> otherwise, everything in the original person's statement is true.
>
>> The DNS is presently still somewhat broken; there have been several
>> sunday morning breakdowns that I had no way to fix myself.  I had to
>> wait until Monday morning for someone else to fix it.  In the
>> meantime, the lists broke.
>
> I think this means that you are a single point of failure.  That's just
> one of the MANY reasons why people think it's a really bad idea to have
> you as the sole root user.
>
> [more technical data removed]
>
>> It had been decided at the PLUG web group meeting that I would work on
>> a new website backend.
>
> Actually, it was decided that there would be a backend group and you
> volunteered as a member.  You came to none of the backend meetings and
> when you began work on the project, you made it publicly known that if
> someone were to work with you, they would have to do things your way
> using your tools and your design.
>
> You clearly didn't want to work with anyone else and nobody wanted to
> work with you.
>
>> Last week I decided to give PLUG a holiday gift, of the new website,
>> and then moved new.pdxlinux.org to www.pdxlinux.org in the httpd.conf,
>> and brought the new stuff online.  I was convinced that I had done the
>> right thing, and that people would either not even notice or be
>> pleasantly surprised when they noticed the changed sheets.  I was
>> hoping that by doing so before it was content-complete I would get
>> plenty of response, something that had not happened before when I
>> would post to the list about it.  Earlier, when it was still at the
>> staging location, I had gotten almost zero feedback, and now I've got
>> a little (and a lot of OT flak).
>
> So you purposely broke the site so that people would notice your work
> and hopefully praise you for it?
>
>> If you look right now, you'll find that much of the old site content
>> is in place.  It took a total of 2 hours work to port that much of it.
>>   I will work on it more as time permits.
>
> And we are the whim of your time constraints since you retain solitary
> control over cvs commits and export to the production site.
>
> I do recall you implying that you might give someone else permission if
> you believed they agreed with you completely on how things should be
> done.
>
>> > 3.  Do not participate in the list/group
>> > People who are not happy with this list and/or group can participate
>> in another User Group that already exists
>>
>> They sure can.  Thank you for your opinions on this matter.
>
> You want the dissidents to shut up and go away.
>
> That's not how you build a community.
>
> J.
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