Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 157
Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 157
- Subject: Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 157
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:26:49 -0700
Hello List,
It seems that you managed to resolve this issue without any input from me. Thanks!
A bit of background: I signed up for this mailing list years before I started to work for Apple, and I have simply continued to use the same email address ever since. I have considered switching over to posting from my Apple email address, and I probably should, but haven't gotten around to it as of yet. I'm sorry for any confusion that this results in.
Jens and Wade are spot on in their analysis of what individual Apple employees can and cannot do in terms of our participation in public discussion. I'm trying to strike that balance to the best of my abilities, and I hope that I do that in a way that's still generally useful to all of you.
Cheers,
Joar
On 22 mar 2012, at 10:58, Wade Tregaskis wrote:
>> Replying from personal email in the context of an Apple developer app getting blasted for lack of quality or bugs could be considered to be indicative of a lack of thought and professionalism. If you're someone who has been irked by some of these bugs, when you see devs replying from personal emails about fixing Xcode, it evokes all kinds of feelings of "no wonder this is so flaky."
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> Or it could be that precious few people in Apple's employment have "subscribe to and contribute to public developer mailing lists" as part of their job. When I worked in dev tools I monitored dozens of the public Apple mailing lists, and several other non-Apple ones, and that was in my own time. At least an hour a day. I replied from this same address I'm using now. Being subscribed in two places is redundant (and I already got several hundred messages a day from Apple-internal mailing lists as it was).
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> For all my misgivings about Apple's developer tools, I cannot fault the numerous engineers who volunteer their time to these lists. While I too find it confusing at first if someone posts as an Apple employee from a email@hidden address, it's easily clarified (though Apple employees doing so would be well-served to indicate they are as such, explicitly, if only to save time).
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> That all said, since approximately none of the Apple engineers posting to this list are authorised to or can claim to represent Apple officially, you should always take what they say as their opinions. So in that sense posting from their personal accounts is generally the wiser thing to do, for their own sakes.
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