Jacqueline McNally wrote:
By posting to this public list you have removed the opportunity for Ryan
to step down in good grace.
I asked Ryan before I posted my note if it was okay with him for
me to do so, and he agreed that the real reason should be known.
I would not have posted in public otherwise.
Your idea of "good grace" must be different from mine. His abrupt
departure could otherwise be interpreted by others as sour
grapes, rather than gracefully accepting a demand from you to
resign.
> The OpenOffice.org project guidelines suggest communications of
> these types of decisions privately, and I remember you yourself
> said praise on-list and critique off-list. I disagree with this
> approach when it comes down to the situation we have at hand.
> New people join the project and lists every day. They do not
> have the background to understand where people are coming from.
> That is, you can point to and extol a person's virtues by
> referring to the archives, but there is no public reference
> to any constructive criticism or correction as this is
> off-list.
That is true. No one ever knows the full story, sometimes not
even the direct participants.
I will only now consider public critique to Ryan at his
request.
I don't understand this sentence. Do you mean that if Ryan says
okay, you will give the reasons here? I have forwarded your note
to Ryan (as he is no longer on the list), and cc'd him on this
note from me, so we'll see what happens.
Jean
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