On Saturday 15 January 2011 00:36:14 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
Pascal Bleser - 1:24 14.01.11 wrote:
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Now, there have been a few points that have been (rightfully) raised by a few people (I'm paraphrasing here ;)): 1) Who said the board has the right to revoke someone's membership ? 2) Isn't it harsh? Wasn't there a better way to deal with it? 3) The timing is very suspicious. 4) It all happened behind closed doors, you should have made it publicly, in a
transparent manner (as transparency and openness is also part of the Guiding Principles).
5) Who and/or how to prevent abuse from the board ? 6) Removing the membership would have been enough, why remove the person from
the project altogether ?
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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.
Just speaking generally about the process...
Even though that behaviour wasn't tied with having membership status, I would still consider removing membership as a way how to escalate things without going to extremes. I know there were some discussions, some attempts to sort things out, but still.
If I am speeding and I get caught and police man will talk to me, I'll be nice for while, but I'll slip to speeding again. After getting ticket, it will take me more time to slip to speeding again. If they took away my licence for few months, I'll start being really careful about speeding...
Yes, you should be. Because if you continue to speed, they will take your driving license - at least here in NL... Which is what was done here too.