Dear all,
Please accept my sincere apologies for the rude an bad language of my
mail yesterday to which I reply. In a heated moment of extreme
frustration and anger, I forgot that a proper language and friendly
tone of voice is essential for a collaboration to work smoothly. I
hope you can forgive me for loosing sight of this.
Secondly, I must point out, that no one will be cut of from access to
the CVS without a proper debate among the senior members of the
collaboration. Again, I overstept my boundaries in a moment of raging
blindness. Please accept my apologies on this point too.
I should like to point out, though, that this is not a retraction of
the previous mail as such. The severity of the problem communicated
(albeit in a bad from) in that mail, is real. Papers has previously
been delayed weeks for exactly these reasons. And guess who has to
take out a week of his normal work to make fixes - yep, you guessed it
- me.
I cannot, and will not, spend my entire time fixing other peoples
problems as well as my own. Therefor, my outlook has always been that
we have to be able to trust people to do things properly - the
collabortation is simply too small for us to have dedicated software
people (if you thought I was the one, think again.). When that trust
is frustrated time after time, the fuse becomes extremely short.
Therefor, I beg of you all: Familiarise yourself with the procedures
and protocol as outlined in "The Hitchhikers Guide to BRAT". I wrote
that document, not for my sake, but to help you out and so that once
and for all, things were said. I know most computer users never read
manuals, but do remember: BRAT and ROOT is your main toolkits - you
should know them well, just like a carpenter should know his hammer
well. Dismissing this as unintresting or irrelevant is in my opinion
unprofessional.
Humbly Yours,
Christian Holm Christensen -------------------------------------------
Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91
DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23
Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305
Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm
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