
07-30-2010, 03:48 AM
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Chance Mercy
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Coral Springs, Florida
Posts: 280
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Though I do understand many servers aren't asking for your help, you must understand that you guys have a reputation for ignoring such requests. Many of the developers who have been working on their own projects for years don't want to even bother asking for help because the way they've been treated in the passed is just insulting. If you are truly trying to rebuild your reputation as an actual team of global staff members willing to help you should take the time to contact managers of many servers and let them know the team is now reformed and willing to help with reasonable requests given that they give you enough time to work through your check list until you have time to address their issue.
I'm glad to hear you are helping UN finally convert to gs2, this is something that's been needed for quite some time and it's ridiculous that it took you guys completely reforming the way your team works to get to it, though I can't blame anybody for this other than Stefan for never setting a guideline to what the GDT is supposed to be doing.
As for waiting for the PWA to tell you they want you to help with making sure classic servers are up to par... well... you guys both work for the same company and have easy access to contact each other, I think now is a good a time as any for both teams to have a long discussion on what should be done with servers like Valk and N-Pulse who remain on the classic tab but need serious work done to their servers. Of coarse the management can refuse help and not give you RC access, but I think that would be a shining opportunity for the PWA's to give said server a deadline to bring their server up to standards before it is replaced with another server that was willing to accept your aid.
Honestly there's no reason why the PWA's and GDT's aren't working together in such a way already. The PWA's should be constantly checking servers under development and servers on the Classic tab and reporting to you guys which servers could benefit most from your help and in turn you should be talking to the managers of these servers and offering your assistance to help them complete in a timely manner.
I'm not for or against anything that you guys decide to do, as I said (maybe not in this thread, I've posted quite a bit today) if you guys don't help out any servers at all it wouldn't be much different than it has been for years. There's no way the development community could be any worse off, there are only positive steps you guys can make which gives you plenty of breathing room to decide where you are going to go if you truly decide to take this job seriously as many before you have not.
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