> -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 4:08 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Decisions and Behavior > > On 7/6/2020 12:14 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > ... > > My criticism concerned the PMC's approach in the present > case. I would have simply wished for equal treatment of equal > volunteer work, or some other justification (and I have > explained what this justification could have been using the > example of Günther). > > I am strongly opposed to the PMC publicly justifying its > committer and > PMC decisions.
I asked for absolutely nothing of the sort! My reference to Günther, should make clear what I meant. > There are several special cases in which doing to would be very > damaging. If we usually published the background to our > decisions, and > refused to do so only in a few cases, people would assume one > of those > special cases applies. > > I believe we should announce when we have invited a committer or PMC > member and they have accepted, and otherwise keep personnel > discussions > private. And I believe the maximum possible openness is what we should live in a free project every day. This does not mean that there can't be reasons to discuss certain things confidentially, but you should use this possibility with a great sense of proportion. greetings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
