Hi. I am writing to all of you, asking for your support.
Mr. Roy T. Fielding has taken this drastic step against the Desktop Community at OpenSolaris, of which KDE is a member [ original email sent to ogb-discuss by Mr. Fielding is included below ]. Please do not allow this to happen. I do not know Mr. Fielding's reasons for taking such a drastic step. What I can say, is that it smacks of politics. The Desktop Community was one of the first Communities to be formed at OpenSolaris, in July 2005. Nothing in the actions, or behavior of the Desktop Community's members, since its inception, warrant such a measure. Your help in this matter is very much needed, and appreciated. Thank you. Stefan Teleman ----- ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [ogb-discuss] please dissolve the Desktop Community Date: Thursday 01 November 2007 21:25 From: "Roy T. Fielding" <[email protected]> To: Governing Board <ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org> In accordance with Article VIII of the OpenSolaris Constitution, public votes are required for release plans and release decisions within any project governed by an OpenSolaris Community Group. A release is defined as any packaged distribution intended for people outside the originating community. Failure to follow that process is grounds for dissolution of the community and reorganization of its work in a form that will obey the rules by which we agreed to form this organization. None of the projects governed by the Desktop Community have demonstrated any sense of awareness of these rules, and Project Indiana has deliberately ignored them on several occasions. It is time to decide whether the constitution is going to be enforced as the bylaws of this organization. Failure to act means that the bylaws have no relation to what goes on under the banner of OpenSolaris, and the OGB is merely a puppet show for the dictator behind the curtains. In that case, it would be better to dissolve the organization than participate in a sham. I hereby appeal to the OGB to dissolve the Desktop Community and call for proposals for its work to be reorganized into communities that actually intend to work on OpenSolaris projects in accordance with the OpenSolaris Constitution. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Chief Scientist, Day Software <http://www.day.com/> _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss ------------------------------------------------------- -- Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition' KDE e.V. -Monty Python stefan.teleman at gmail.com
