Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (479 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx> [01-14-11 08:59]:
> Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2011, 01:24:32 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
> > 6) Unfortunately, only removing the membership status wouldn't have changed
> > anything in this case, as the disruptive and poisonous behaviour was not
> > seen exclusively in situations where membership plays a role. The Board
> > members were (and still are) convinced that we had to remove the person
> > from the project altogether to resolve this issue.
>
> If the offender feels mistreated does he/she have a chance to voice his/her 
> opinion about the matter to the community? Community preferbly as in opensuse-
> project mailinglist.

Improbable as the person was completely remove, ie: from mailing lists, irc...

> That way we can safely trust the judgement of the board until the person can 
> bring up opposite proof.
>
>
> To me this even sounds pretty good as a rule of thumb in case this happens 
> again: 
> A note to -project that the board was forced to remove a member from the 
> project due to violations of the guidelines and he himself is free to
> speak up if he feels wronged. Otherwise any communication between the
> affected parties is to be done in private.

The original post on this subject stated that numerous efforts were made
to achieve compliance with the GPs w/o success.  Doesn't this meet with
your suggestion?

> That way privacy is respected and no member can be silenced by the board 
> without note.

The notation appears to be an afterthought.

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