On Friday 23 Oct 2015 14:41:56 Richard Brown wrote:
On 23 October 2015 at 14:13, ianseeks <ianseeks@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I also had ambiguous feelings when reading those mail that has private content from my personal point of view but also from my personal point of view it seems to be meant as some kind of warning to all others?
That could possibly be the reason. I wonder if there is something in the Code of Conduct relating to this kind of situation and if not, should there be? It wasn't intended as a warning to others.
There's two factors which crossed the Boards collective mind when deciding how to make this post
One repeated bit of feedback the Board gets is that we do too much in private, and therefore no one knows the work the Board is doing. Therefore, as a rule of thumb we are trying our best to do everything 'public by default'.
That said, obviously, an issue like this is precisely the kind that we would consider to handle privately, but that leads to the second point - during one of the issues which led to this situation (the situation with Translations) I had a discussion with Carlos in private, trying to persuade him to take a more productive and proactive role in resolving the issues he's concerned about there.
During the course of a subsequent public discussion, details of that private discussion were leaked out a bit at a time, often with pretty curious deviations in interpretation from how the other parties remembered it. In the end, a much broader disclosure of the content of the discussion was required to clear up what really went on.
And so, we (the Board) didn't want a repetition of that situation here. Everyone can see what we're saying, how we're saying it, and as this email proves, we're prepared to discuss and clarify as required.
I don't think this is a bad way for the Board to conduct itself - it's our job to deal with issues like these with could potentially 'slip between the cracks' of formal rules. Clear cut formal rulebreaking is so much easier to deal with..
If anyone is concerned, let me put this very clearly
The Board will never deal with an issue in this manner without ensuring that the parties involved have had several warnings and opportunities to change the situation in both public and private. Each action of this type is decided by the Board is considered on a case-by-case basis and our actions reflect what we feel is in the best interest of the Community at that time. It would be unfair to extrapolate or assume that the course of action that was chosen in this case would be readily applied to even similar situations.
I think the issue is that if the board doesn't follow the code of conduct in its dealings with others, its not a good example to others. They lose the moral high ground if they vent their frustration in public in the same way a contributor may vent his/her frustration at times. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org