2011/8/12 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> > Hello, > > 2011/8/12 Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> > > To second Florian's point about the private list, and to answer Drew's > requests, it is actually rather simple. There is no decision by principle > taken privately on the private mailing list. In fact the steering-discuss > list is where decisions are being taken (there is no "rest of us" here, > Drew, because I'm on the discuss@ list as well, and I have a strong > feeling > against using that list for SC/BoD discussion.) Private communications > happen in two cases: there's a need for confidentiality in legal terms or > one of us wishes to switch to a more informal mode because he/she cannot > discuss his / her point clearly without feeling uncomfortable in public. > > However, note that we have a rule inside our bylaws that's rather clear > about transparency and disclosure: if we have a decision that needs to be > taken care of in confidentiality we must disclose it after a specific > period > of time. Hence the case with our letter of intent to Oracle. I must > reassure > everyone here we don't write such letters every month, very far from that > :) > Last but not least the use of one private list exists in every FOSS > project; > and LibreOffice, just like every other project, does make use of it, > however, we make sure that the decision making process does not happen > there. > > Best, > Charles. > > Hello guys.
I do agree to what Charles said, but I have some things to say on that: There should have a public note, somewhere, explaining that private lists do exist and showing the requirements for a member to be accepted in those lists. What I think is doubtful is maintaining hidden lists. Note: In my view, *private* lists are different from *hidden* lists. Cheers. -- Paulo de Souza Lima Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador http://www.pasl.net.br http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729 "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and the peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher -- 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
