Hi Marco, it's unclear if we're talking past each other -
Marco Marinello wrote: > it's of course legit to ask people contributing here to comply with the > ML netiquette but I don't think closing the thread here is the solution. > This part of the thread is a conversation about the past, and as such has served its purpose. > In my opening message sent on January 9th I made a proposal consisting > of four points as an alternative approach to the current online > situation and although the ML is named "board-discuss", nobody from the > board commented on the merit of the proposal. > There were board people answering, I counted two immediate follow-ups: Paolo: msg-id a2501c6d-5ed1-49bb-ebef-1e5a56cb6...@documentfoundation.org Michael: msg-id b44f7c5d-968d-0904-703a-e0a03b18f...@collabora.com Plus a handful of good thoughts from community members, in the rather massive side-thread that evolved from there. > I'm geniunally interested in the opinion of who's currently driving the > foundation and I don't understand why you, Thorsten, as current and > future board member, are certainly following the thread but only asking > to close it, instead of giving your contribution. So please, as for > other board members, go back to my first mail here and reply to that. > Not directly answering on a controversial proposal, that is triggering quite emotional reactions, and has resulted in one of the longer navel-gazing & history re-telling threads of the recent past - is sometimes what is needed to not fuel the flames. I also had nothing substantial to add, beyond the two existing answers. I understand you frustrations & your motives, but I mostly agree with Paolo: claiming Collabora Online is still TDF's, and then distributing free binaries of it (which was the trigger for Collabora to leave in the first place) - is quite a hostile move. It would also be beyond tricky for TDF to message that to the general (FLOSS-affine) public. There are aspects of your proposal that are really good ideas though, c.f. the comments Simon made. The evolving consensus in the board it seems (though of course I cannot speak for them), is that TDF should for the moment close the chapter of LibreOffice Online. All the best, -- Thorsten
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