On Nov 30, 2007 6:11 AM, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:20, UNIX admin wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > I don't know about Shawn, but I'll write for myself: > > > > I expect Sun employees to forward the blog URI directly to Jonathan > > Schwartz. > > I also expect Sun employees to back up their now former colleague > > and show that they have spine, and complain to Jonathan about this > > incident. > > > > I expect Sun employees to stand together with the community and > > fight back, and communicate very clearly to Sun management that > > such incidents will not be tolerated in the future, by reporting > > said middle management to the big-boss-head-honcho, namely Mr. > > Schwartz. > > > > That's what I expect. Fight for what is right. > > Jonathan and I have had plenty of forwards of the posting, yes. > That's why I investigated. There's an HR dimension that I can't > discuss in public, but the substantive issue for the FOSS community > is unrelated to the reduction-in-force layoff the employees in > question were unfortunately subjected to. > > So far I have found that the substantive issue seems to be about the > fact a unilateral change of the governance was made[1] by Sun > employees, without involving either the community or Sun management. > All Sun's representative did was ask for that unauthorised change to > be reverted. That's not how the writer of the original posting at > OpenDS wanted it to appear, naturally. > > I intend to fight for what is right in this case; right now that > appears to be the reversion of the OpenDS governance to its original > state.
Please understand that I, as an outsider, had no way to independently verify the situation since a good portion of it was related to internal Sun communications. In retrospect, I should have titled my original posting "Middle management at Sun allegedly destroys OpenDS? What about OpenSolaris?" However, it was difficult to discount the initial posting that I read for a few reasons: * Recent decisions made by Sun management without community input * Sun's past actions within other projects they are directly involved with I am relieved to hear that there is more to this than posted. Thank you Simon, for taking the time to verify and accurately report on the situation using the appropriate connections you have available. It continues to prove that there are some folks in Sun management have the right perspective. My only request is that Sun quickly moves to make an official statement regarding this project / community to ensure that this inaccurate portrayal does not tarnish their image and that of other communities they participate in. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
