On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote: > > Suggestion: weekly updates (to en:wp Village Pump and wikien-l, > > perhaps), with whatever there is to report, including nothing. People > > hear nothing and worry and get upset - you can see the frantic > > activity below the surface, everyone else just sees a duck sitting on > > a pond. > > > > Ducks sitting on a pond are just an invitation for the guy standing on > shore with a shotgun. > > Ec In my scientific work I find it highly beneficial to send early versions of my analyses out to the other team members. I generally post them on our internal wiki. This allows us to refine our ideas, to find bugs early, and to suggest changes and new features. The best time to fix bugs and add new features related to what you have already done is while or just after you have finished writing that very code. If you push on with the analysis for weeks or months without any external feedback you are ignoring many opportunities for improvement. Trying to come back in the future and make changes is tough - you have to refresh those ideas in your mind and relearn your code. I think David's suggestion is a good one for more practical reasons than he listed. Certainly I disagree with your conclusion that this person is just going to get peppered with criticism. The exact opposite is true - you will receive just criticism if you lock yourself up with an important result for months on end. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l