On 12/01/16 04:16, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks to those participating in the conversation concerning mailing list moderation that did not resort to personal attacks, name calling, or implying ill will towards any particular member of the community.
We have reviewed both the direct feedback to board@opensuse.org and all comments of the various threads and have come to the following conclusion. While the imposed ban on Carlos from the lists was justified, well intentioned and has resolved the disruption that was occurring on some lists, in retrospect the ban had further reaching impacts than expected, including removing a good source of help from this opensuse@o.o mailinglist. For that, we would like to apologise.
We have asked the ML admin team to re-instate Carlos on opensuse@.o.o while keeping the positing restriction on other lists in place until February 14th.
Again thanks to those participating in the discussion that focused on the matter of the issue.
The openSUSE Board Andrew Wafaa Bruno Friedmann Kostas Koudaras Michal Hrušecký Richard Brown (Chair) Robert Schweikert
Now that all members of the Board have acknowledged, and have apologised for doing so, that they were in error when they allowed the Board Chairman announce the banning of Carlos from posting in all lists and fora, there remains one more action which the current members of the Board must make which would make the Community, to which the Board is responsible, happier about the actions of the current members of the Board, which they agreed to take, concerning the Carlos ER matter. In the excuses which were proffered by the Board for the banning of Carlos much was made of Carlos' "behaviour" in the *-factory mail list. It was also brought to everyone's attention that Carlos got some moderator's/moderators' "gander up" in the fora (aka 'forums') -- which are different to the mail lists. It appeared from the limited posts which Carlos was allowed to make before he was summarily banned from all lists and fora that he had "served his time" re the penalty imposed way back in October 2015 on him regarding his participation in the fora -- but that this was ignored and the fora were nevertheless included in the [later/latest] summary ban. The current Board has now made the correct decision and has taken the right step in redeeming its reputation by apologising for banning Carlos from -- at least -- the 'opensuse' list, a list which was never stressed as a list of contention for Carlos' banning. The members of the current Board -- which has only a couple of weeks or so of existence left before the result of the elections for its (new) membership is known -- would leave their reputations in better shape if they now *immediately* rescind the ban on Carlos' participation in all fora and all -- bar one -- mail lists. As an expression of reconciliation, and in the spirit of suggesting to the members of the current Board that they do not further "lose face" in this matter, even Carlos would accept that, as a compromise, an inability for him to post to the opensuse-factory list could remain in force until the 14th February 2016 -- but his posting rights to all other lists and fora be immediately re-instated. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.3-9 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org