Ian Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:26 +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
I contacted Ryan privately explaining why we were revoking the
MarCon role.
I cc'd Louis into my message for two reasons. 1. I feel
uncomfortable sending private mail when I consider all mail should
be on a list so that it may be archived for future reference, and
2. In case my mail is not received or acted upon, storage is held
somewhere else than on my computer.
So why not cc your co-lead?
Surely, I can include anyone I wish?
I did not cc John as he was travelling. I chose Louis because Ryan
sometimes talks to Louis first, and has often stated that he is the only
one that talks to Sam and Louis. Ryan also, has not always replied to me
and I consider that it was important that I included someone that he
would talk to if he wished. Louis is also the Chair of the Community
Council and the Community Manager.
The fact that Louis initiated this action and when finding himself on
sticky ground reverted to the Community Council
If you are referring to DLS, I can quite understand Louis promptly
submiting the issue to the Community Council (CC). See II.b. on
http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html For various reasons,
DLS has always provoked discussion.
bypassing the marketing leads makes one think that it is Louis that
runs the marketing project not the marketing leads.
We are an international project and are fortunate that we have
volunteers that are able to carry out activities in different time
zones. Louis, John and I being in different time zones with a
significant overlap are able to respond promptly as situations arise. I
think it would be most awkward if any issues arise that needed to wait
for my waking time.
That just reinforces the impression that if Louis doesn't like it it
gets vetoed no matter what. This seems very unlike any Open Source
project I have been associated with. Its more like a centrally
controlled dictatorship.
I'm sorry that you feel this way. Observing and participating in other
OSS projects I have quite a different impression. OpenOffice.org has
very loose guidelines. I have been looking at the Gnome, Fedora,
Mozilla, Debian and Ubuntu guidelines and governance and they have many
more rules for engagement and codes of conduct documented. Perhaps it
may be worth while comparing and considering those.
Regards
Jacqueline McNally
Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au)
Linux.conf.au 2006 (www.linux.conf.au)
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