Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Why don't we close group registration completely

[Jing Luo]

On 2024-03-02 23:35, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Jing Luo,
>
> (I'm afraid I'm too ignorant of Chinese names to make an informed guess
> as to which is your surname.  I'm sorry about that.)

That was thoughtful :) I write my last name last and go by "Jing".

> At 2024-03-02T22:31:04+0900, Jing Luo via Discussions among Savannah 
> Hackers, open subscription wrote:
> > [...]
> > The problem is not the percentage of submissions that were cancelled.
>
> Then why bring up an (unsupported) statistic observing that 90% of them
> were cancelled?

To prove a point that closing the registration can save everyone's time.

The number comes from here [1].
[1] 
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/administration/savane.git/tree/frontend/site-specific/gnu/register/index.php?h=frontend#n128

> [...]
> So people can and do disagree about whether it is present,
> and in what degree.

Let's disagree :)

> If a submitter fails repeatedly or for a long period to acquire an
> understanding of some factor that is essential to a project's 
> acceptance
> in Savannah, then their submission cannot succeed.
>
> Could you draft a template for a rejection/cancellation message that
> would be sufficiently polite, in your view?  Maybe future 
> communications
> can be based on that, with tuning to particular circumstances of 
> course.

I could, but I don't think it'd be helpful to use a new template: the 
comments with problematic tone didn't use the existing templates, which 
are at least adequate IMO. I don't know what would be a good template to 
substitute "I don't have time", "you have much to learn", "It looks like 
we don't listen to each other".

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