I'll be honest and admit I've been leaving you behind in development matters because I don't want you even trying to fix anything I write, because when you do, it gets broken worse. There are three rules I try to abide by in coding: 1. Write bug-free code (always fix warnings) 2. Write secure-first code (always initialze variables, validate everything) 3. Write flexible code (no throw-away code, a lot of perl stuff uses the same framework)
Nowhere in there is "document clearly" or "get approvals from 15 layers of management"
Unfortunately, you have a problem. You have at least one person (me) who has to support CG along with you, and who know who else will come down the line and become a full admin. Leaving me out of the development causes me to do what you describe: take unilateral action BECAUSE I don't know better AND take flack for it. I HATE THAT!
What really pisses me off is when you decide to do something that has a major effect on ComicGenesis and people complain. I always put a poll in the forums to see if people even want said feature if it's going to be significant. Check out the newsbox size poll, I opted to implement all the sizes anyways (as different ad caches), but the 150x300 image size is still the newsbox size. There were times where you were saying that you were going to change the size to the keenspot size and I was like NO we aren't, and you still repeated it.
What pisses me off is when you decide to do something that has a major effect on CG, and I'm left out of the loop. I don't check the forums often, and sometimes I don't see you polling on stuff you do change. I see things that are broken and there's no bug report, no notice saying "This is broken, don't touch it, I'm working on it" and I get people calling me on IM, Email, on LJ and the Forums saying "WHAT'S GOING ON, THIS IS BROKEN!!!"
Take Siteadmin for instance. Folks are complaining they can't log in, and I'm turning into a FAQ machine saying "Use your forum account, then hook your comic account to it." I just now inserted a one-line mod there saying "Please use your CG Forum account to login" to try to kill the whole mess.
Now, I've made what I want to change public. It's on the CG Wiki as RedWolf's Todo List (http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/RedWolf%27s_Todo_List). I'm going to keep that updated, and I'd love people come to me when they have a concern about what I'm doing.
You keep getting complaints about me, and I've asked you to forward them to me. I think last night was the second time I've asked you to do so. If you want me to change, and I don't know what is wrong, how am I going to know what I do need to change?
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Date: 2006-01-24 03:22 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, you have a problem. You have at least one person (me) who has to support CG along with you, and who know who else will come down the line and become a full admin. Leaving me out of the development causes me to do what you describe: take unilateral action BECAUSE I don't know better AND take flack for it. I HATE THAT!
What pisses me off is when you decide to do something that has a major effect on CG, and I'm left out of the loop. I don't check the forums often, and sometimes I don't see you polling on stuff you do change. I see things that are broken and there's no bug report, no notice saying "This is broken, don't touch it, I'm working on it" and I get people calling me on IM, Email, on LJ and the Forums saying "WHAT'S GOING ON, THIS IS BROKEN!!!"
Take Siteadmin for instance. Folks are complaining they can't log in, and I'm turning into a FAQ machine saying "Use your forum account, then hook your comic account to it." I just now inserted a one-line mod there saying "Please use your CG Forum account to login" to try to kill the whole mess.
Now, I've made what I want to change public. It's on the CG Wiki as RedWolf's Todo List (http://cgwiki.comicgenesis.com/index.php/RedWolf%27s_Todo_List). I'm going to keep that updated, and I'd love people come to me when they have a concern about what I'm doing.
You keep getting complaints about me, and I've asked you to forward them to me. I think last night was the second time I've asked you to do so. If you want me to change, and I don't know what is wrong, how am I going to know what I do need to change?