Re: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

On 15/12/2009, at 4:01 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Remember gnome-hackers? Mails get leaked all the time, and I doubt
> > moving foundation-list private would make any difference.
>
> Sure.  But at least someone needs to leak it.  Currently any heated  
> discussion is like a goldmine begging the trolls to dip into it.

I think it's generally worse when you just leak a single mail. At  
least folks can see the entire thread should they be interested in it.

> FWIW, that's what KDE does.  And we hardly hear about internal KDE  
> issues in the news.

Or perhaps because they're less interesting from a foundation point of  
view? GNOME feels like it's cutting a lot more steps than KDE a lot of  
the time around the social part of the project.

> > GNOME needs to
> > continue to promote itself as a transparent and welcoming community,
> > which we do very very well for the most part. Let's be careful not to
> > throw all that progress away.
>
> The net effect of that perceived transparency is that many  
> discussions happen on private IRC messages or direct mail and never  
> make it to foundation-list in fear of long threads and negative  
> publicity.

I would submit that they would happen regardless of whether the thread  
was open or closed to be honest.


Glynn