Re: Are membership renewals generally discussed publicly on the list? (was Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics)

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

For what is worth, I don't support the idea of getting Richard out of
the GNOME Foundation, nor the way that this idea is being discussed
and nor the suggestion of moderating his posts by default.

"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it"
- François-Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire (1694-1778)

2013/1/10 Jeremy Allison <jra google com>:
> Yes. This seems to have gone beyond the realm of reasonableness and into a
> personal attack on another Foundation member. Please don't do this.
>
> I am only on this list due to the benefit of sitting on top of Google's pile
> of money, some of which we contribute to Gnome. I am too busy with my own
> Free Software project to be able to directly contribute to Gnome code. Will
> I be the next to be attacked for not being sufficiently useful to Gnome ?
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn ebb org> wrote:
>>
>> Is it standard procedure for credentials of Foundation members to be
>> discussed on-list like this -- particularly for existing members in good
>> standing?
>>
>> For example, I don't recall my own membership being discussed herein when
>> I
>> was renewed; it was done in private email with the Membership Committee.
>>
>> My GNOME contributions have indeed been eclectic, non-regular and, well,
>> just
>> plain "different" than the norm.  For example, I've helped with licensing
>> policy discussions and drafting, and I've done some work to defend GNOME 3
>> publicly against the "Linus Torvalds attacks".
>>
>> Meanwhile, upon reading this sub-thread and considering my own
>> contributions
>> to the GNOME Foundation, I'm frankly left wondering if my membership would
>> be
>> "next" to be called into question on this thread.  I imagine that I'd feel
>> *really* uncomfortable and even personally offended if my own membership
>> were
>> being called into question publicly on this list!
>>
>> Thus, IMO, it frankly seems unnecessarily aggressive and downright
>> inappropriate to question someone's fitness for membership on the public
>> list
>> like this, and I hope that folks will show restraint and raise any such
>> issues privately among the Membership Committee and the member in
>> question.
>>
>>    -- bkuhn
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Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz