On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 02:34 -0500, Dora Scilipoti wrote: > On 11/14/2019 04:32 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > > > It has been discussed with him and he has been told that these kind > > of > > discussions and decisions need to be made in public. > > And you have been told very clearly that he does not agree.
Does he not agree with decisions being made in public or discussions being public, or both? > You have also been told, publicly, what he intends to do. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00005.html > > Please do not insist. The current situation, as I understand it, is that there is a group of about 30 people, many of them active GNU maintainers, that are not happy with GNU. Any of them stepping back as a maintainer would be a loss for GNU, but fortunately so far none of them have felt the need to do so. There appears to be a set of demands that should ostensibly address the situations that cause the unhappiness of this group. I'd much rather have these designs be drawn up with public input than hastily put together over private channels and only then presented wholesale with only the options of accepting or rejecting it in whole, which might make some maintainers feel they have to reconsider their involvement with the project depending on the outcome. So far, nothing irreversible has happened, and I think that's a good result, even if at times the discussion has taken a course that has not been comfortable for everyone involved. -Andreas