On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 12:46 +0100, Pierre Böckmann wrote:
Don't you think calling for a total reset of the Board (with the consequences that Richard mentionned) is an appropriate answer to a problem that you don't know everything about ?
You don't, obviously, but I do. A community elected member was rejected from becoming a board member because of ominous reasons, unjustified and got humiliated in the process - all backed by the rest of the board.
Both departing Board members left the Board in a manner clearly intended to minimise the possibility of any humiliation. You just need to read the announcements to see that was it obvious the Board intended that those impacted by the Board's decision to enforce our Code of Conduct could save face. This was true both for the subject of the Code of Conduct breach and the dissenting Board member who resigned in protest. In both cases, the departing Board members would appear to have made public statements (either here or via other public forums) that undermined the shield of privacy which the Board had allowed and encoraged to be wrapped around their departures. This then led to rampant nonsense on the mailinglists and the Board needing the clarify as much as they can in such an obviously sensitive situation. Remember, Code of Conduct violations can rarely/never be handled publically, there are always multiple parties, the accused, the accusers, the aggrieved, and all of them deserve the right for their incident to be handled discreetly and privately. Else there is no point having a Board to handle such sensitive disputes and we can just have a project led wholly by endless arguments on the mailinglists. Given the public statements made by the departing Board members and the direct causal relationship they have to the subsequent mailinglist flames and reluctant Board clarifications, I can't help but feel that any 'humilation' felt by the departing Board members is their own fault. They had a clear opportunity to leave in a way that saved them face and maintained a good position in the community, I think it's unfortunate they chose not to make the most of it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org