Hi, Am Samstag, 14. März 2020, 23:39:59 CET schrieb Christian Boltz:
I agree that none of these options is perfect.
See, that's what I meant. Welcome to my (and the board's) situation for at least two weeks now. It's "pick your poison" somehow. :-/
Option 1 is what you call "doing the laundry". It should be more than obvious that I don't want to do this in public - in the best interest of _everybody_ involved. (Some recent mails probably include hints what "everybody" includes.) (As a sidenote - popcorn dealers probably disagree with avoiding option 1, but making them happy is not the job of the board or the openSUSE community.)
If you re-read my resignation mail, it should be clear that I'd probably pick option 2 or (also not perfect) 3.2) send out a mail that contains only publicly known facts, and ask the community not to ask further questions - basically repeating what I wrote in my resignation mail. I know this didn't work 100% [1] and never expected not to get any questions, but I'm quite sure it would have worked with a few reminders.
Oh, and I wouldn't call option 3 the "midway" - the board mail was closer to option 1 than to option 2, and contained more details than really needed.
To keep it with your chicken game example one could say you were the first one pointing away from the chicken. Don't get me wrong: I understand you position in that whole story. But you didn't chose option 2. You went with something near to 3 as well by stating "[…] some things happened in the board that are completely against my principles and beliefs." [1] Again, I'm not accusing you for your decision. It's just not correct that you remained silent. Resigning "for personal reasons" or similar would be more like that.
Maybe the board would have looked a bit bad by refusing to publish details, but OTOH, I doubt if it looks better by publishing things they had promised to keep confidential [2].
[2] For comparison: I remember some cases when the board heard about "technical" (in a very wide meaning) plans that were not meant for the public yet. In _all_ these cases, everything the board heard was kept confidential.
But I assume there weren't any related statements or even board resignations to handle back then where people indirectly pointed at those confidential plans. Cheers, vinz. [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-02/msg00042.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org