Cor, Apparently you enjoy an argument. :-D
I wasn't going to write further to this thread, but apparently you need to have the last word, and I don't see why you should. I'll explain why below. My only mistake in writing to the candidates was that I continued in the threads they started on this SC list, and election rule #6 says, "All discussion related to the elections should be held on disc...@documentfoundation.org. Members are invited to ask questions to one or all candidates on that list." But that's maybe the candidates' fault, too, because I guess they should have posted their candidate statements to the discuss list rather than the SC list. No matter, further discussions about the original subject can be continued there. However, I just re-read the election rules and the bylaws, and there is absolutely nothing to say that the questions I asked Thorsten, Michael and Caolan were out of order. So you have absolutely no justification in trying to lay down the rules about this. This is an election, right? And the candidates are asking for our votes and invited our questions, right? So I would say I'm entitled to ask them whatever is close to my concerns and interests. And, for their part, they have the right to answer what they like, or even not to answer at all if that's their preference. The rules that we all have to keep to are the rules of courtesy, friendliness and decent behavior. From that viewpoint, I'm perfectly within bounds. So why do you feel that I'm only allowed to broach subjects that *you* feel are acceptable? Don't you feel you're a little out of line here? Because I definitely think you are. I'm rather disappointed by the development of this thread. And I don't think it was a welcome event in the first BoD election. Please allow me to remind you of some relevant clauses of the community bylaws: "There are no differences of equality between Members, even though certain Members may be granted particular powers, appointed to certain roles and responsibilities, and entrusted with access to certain Community resources. Every Member is expected to always remember that he/she is part of an egalitarian Community of which a key guiding principle is public service, and that membership is a status which is truly earned through contributive work, not something acquired by unproductive activities such as idle posting to mailing lists and forums, etc. Every Member is expected to deal with other Community Members and with our end users with courtesy, forbearance, objectivity, open-mindedness, friendliness, understanding, patience and goodwill." I don't think you're putting all that into practice. Therefore, I'd propose that we don't post further to this thread and, if you want to continue the discussion, we should continue on the discuss list. Sigh... We've lost many contributors to the project over the past 8-10 months, but I had thought that the upside of that shedding of interested community members was that communication within the project had improved to a more-mature level than the flaming discussions of the first few months... Please read the above as meant in a friendly manner, although I am exercising my right to intellectually disagree with you. :-) I regret that I won't be at the conference, or I would definitely buy you a beer to show you that there are no hard feelings on my side. ;-) -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
