[techhelpbb]

We'd all like to think that volunteers can address all the issues.
Truth is that there are limits to what we can and are allowed to do.
Our access is limited in many ways as well.
During matches we all have multiple responsibilities.
In a game with this much human attention required for scoring it's easily distracting for people on the field.

If it makes people feel better to fault volunteers for falling in the holes and complexity left for them to stumble over feel free. It's like mocking a team for robot problems. Anyone here want to pretend you've never had robot problems?

Just like robot problems a team can let this pull them apart or they can put the politics and egos aside and work the problems.

This being said: project management *IS NOT* and *WILL NEVER BE* about cleverly roasting the assigned resources with negative feedback. That's not project management and that's not team leadership. What that is, is what happens when you have an organization with issues, a lack of appropriate skills and resources to solve those issues and too many chefs.

I respect the people that know from personal and professional experience that the field systems need work. I respect and acknowledge that we as teams and volunteers have had several painful examples that should not be ignored. However let us lead by example. If I was one of those one or two people that maintain FMS (I am not) all this would do is demotivate me not motivate me. It's wonderful that FIRST has acknowledged this issue and corrected that bug. However it is pretty clear that the follow through on this sort of stuff in the future is uncertain. As I wrote before, and I write this with respect is it possible FIRST that you could explain to your membership what is going to be changed in the future to make this a better experience?

Changing the game isn't going to fix a process that produces the support technology for the game.
Getting the interface fixed doesn't address the other technical issues.

What's going to change to heal this process so that what comes out of it does more to inspire and less to aggravate?