I am aware of the project guidelines, please see below for why I felt it
was necassary to send my email directly to you instead of on the list.
Diane Mackay wrote:
According to the project guidelines:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html
"Occasionally, disputes over leadership arise in a project.
In these cases, the project members and lead should first
seek to amicably resolve the dispute among themselves, via
the primary mail list."
This suggests that it /is/ perfectly acceptable to raise
such issues on this list.
It IS perfectly acceptable to raise issues to the list and let everyone
know of inappropriate behavior, etc. This is a necassary evil due to
passions flaring up, and so forth.
My email to you was not about the fact you were bringing it up to the
list, it was in the manner in which you brought it up to the list. The
manner you started was basically called a Flame.
Instead of laying into someone with, this WILL not happen in the
future. You should have started the email by saying here are some items
that you are having problems with, and does this sound like correct
behavior. The people on this list would then be able to discuss, in a
resonable manor, your gripes, and let you know what they think, and the
list would decide if they are valid, or if you just misunderstood what
was stated.
This is the "professional" way to handle these types of disagreements.
In the Open Source world, these things WILL happen. We are not being
paid, so we do this because we LIKE to do these things, and we get very
passionate about them.
As Lead, it is my job to keep Flames from occuring, thus my email to you.
If you want to discuss problems you are having on the list, GREAT. Just
don't start by flaming someone.
Post your issue to the list with viable links, much like you did to me
today, after the 3rd time I asked what was the problem you were having.
I did not want to discuss things in private, but you didn't provide ANY
information about what you felt was so wrong you had to draw a line in
the virtual sand.
The reason for wanting to Call you off list was for the SAME reason. I
don't like having disagreements occur and tried to get to the core
reason why you felt it was such a problem.
I'll send an email in a sec with the links that you provided earlier, so
we can discuss the problems you are having in the open like you wanted.
--
Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Maintainer
http://documentation.openoffice.org
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