On Friday, 13 March 2020 13:29 Richard Brown wrote:
You wouldn't expect a company to send an all-staff email explaining why every employee ever got fired for disciplinary reasons, would you?
What I'm saying is that saying someone violated CoC, guiding principles or whatever and that I cannot say more "in order to protect them" makes things looks way worse - and that's exactly what makes it hypocritical as this "to protect them" is actually doing exactly the opposite. One should also keep in mind that offenses like this are often matter of a personal point of view and what one sees as completely unacceptable, other people could judge in a different way. The "violations" for which some people were handed lifetime (!) bans from openSUSE mailing lists in your era are an illustrative example.
No one deserves their name being dragged through the mud. I respect the current Board for clearly doing their best to avoid that in the recent cases.
In my eyes, this is exactly where the (remaining) board failed miserably.
And such delicate cases mean things like resignations to save face rather than public shaming should be the norm.
Well, apparently I'm not the only one who feels that all this effort to make things as silent as possible was a way to allow the rest of the board to save _their_ faces. And I can't blame either of the two board ex-members for changing their mind eventually and starting to defend themselves. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org