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Cleanup #4828

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dan: don't respond to e-mail via your phone in the bathroom

Added by Alex Elder about 11 years ago. Updated almost 11 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
common
Target version:
% Done:

0%

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Tags:
#tmi #escalation
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Description

I had an e-mail exchange with Dan this morning about some
problems with gitbuilder that Mark Nelson reported to me.
His responses were somewhat terse, but I thought nothing
of it.

Dan recommended I report the problem on the #inktank IRC
channel. I asked Dan whether this should be considered
normal procedure, to which he responded:

I dunno, but it gets you better response than me on my
phone on the john...

I consider this a bug on multiple levels:
- First, I believe there is no benefit to having a
telephone in the bathroom, notwithstanding my knowledge
of people who do.
- Second, since there is not a lot of chance Dan could
offer much help with the problem, it might have been
better to simply not respond to the e-mail
- Finally, this leads one to wonder whether Dan ever
loans his phone out to anyone, and if so, whether he
offers them any sort of disclaimer.

I marked this "normal" priority, even though one might
consider this whole affair something different from that.

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