El mar., 4 sept. 2018 a las 10:04, Richard Brown (RBrownCCB@opensuse.org) escribió:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 19:49, Ana Martínez anamma06@gmail.com wrote:
When you joined the Board, you joined a decision making body that works as a Team. I expect any team member to support the decisions made of that team. Equally, I expect a well rounded team to also be supportive and open with dissent and complexity in their decision-making.
In our Wiki page[1] does not say anything about supporting decisions a board member don't agree with. But it does say that the board should document decisions and policies. When things are not documented neither discussed, it is normal that your expectations and mines are different.
After that many answers in this email thread I think the board should discuss in the next meeting if we should make public who voted what (I'll ensure this happens).
I think it would be grossly inappropriate for the Board to discuss in private something we have collectively proven to be able to discuss in public.
The fact that we're still having this conversation here means that any move to discuss this in the Board tonight would seem to be to be both hypocritical in the goal for more transparency, and the view that the Board meetings should be focused on topics which cannot be discussed openly. Therefore I will be objecting to any suggestion that we discuss this at tonight's meeting.
I object to not discuss it. 💔
From this thread I get that:
- Community wants the votes to be public - I want them to be public - You want them to be private - I am not sure what the other board members want
I would like to know what the others in the board think. More information is always a good thing. 😍 I think I am on my right to add things to discuss in our meeting as everybody else in the board. I do not see the problem to discuss something in private after we received feedback from the community always that this is properly documented in our minutes.
As others already gave their opinion, here is mine: When the board doesn't agree on something, but votes about it, who voted what should be public except if there is a good reason to not make it public (the reason should be included in the minutes). That includes for example, that we are resolving a conflict for which people wrote as expecting anonymity and that it is discussed in private.
I agree with your principle. My point is, the Board should only be deciding on topics where there is a good reason not to make it public.
What was the good reason for the board to decide on the football team and not to make it public?
We have the Board so the Project has people who can make unpopular, but trusted decisions.
I disagree. I believe the Board should make popular decisions, which represent what the community wants.
From our Wiki[1]: Facilitate decision making processes where needed.
Facilitate decision is not the same as decide and it also doesn't include anything about unpopular decisions.
If the Board's function is only to make popular decisions, then we might as well not have a Board and put everything to a popular vote. And such an option is not viable in many of those cases.
I really like the idea for the cases in which it is possible. 😘
Regards,
Ana
[1] - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board