On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 11:01:34AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >On 10/23/22 10:07, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: >>>If you're trying to suggest that overseers, contrary to our repeated >>>public statements, wish to block all migration, that is untrue and you >>>will need to retract this. >> >>Here's a more precise statement: Two of the overseers are leaders of >>projects hosted on sourceware and three overseers (including those two) >>have stated clearly on multiple occasions that transitioning to LF IT >>is off the table, effectively announcing their decision on behalf of >>projects they lead. It is hence clear that the overseers have >>effectively blocked full migration of sourceware to LF IT. > >They can make those decisions for the projects they lead. But making >the decision or setting criteria for other projects is highly >unreasonable.
This is not, IMO, helping. On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 02:25:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >We'd like to assure the communities that, when and if any individual >project formally expresses the decision of their developers to transfer >their services, we'll endeavor to make the move as smooth as possible. >Those projects that wish to stay will continue to receive the best >services that the overseers can offer, with the ongoing assistance of >Red Hat, the SFC, and, when relevant, the FSF tech team. We can't help move anyone without first establishing some kind of criteria. The only reasonable criteria is a formal request from the project being moved. As an exercise in human psychology, these insinuations of anticipated unhelpfulness *can* eventually be a self-fullfilling prophecy, though. i.e., if you really do not *want* any help with any transitions of projects then, just keep implying, despite evidence to the contrary, that we might be unreasonable jerks.
