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On 07/04/14 08:59, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> |
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>> On 07/03/14 09:47, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>>> Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2014, 07:27:14 schrieb Anthony G. Basile: |
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>>> |
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>>> > > Hi Andreas, |
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>>> > > <devil's advocate> |
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>>> > > ComRel has acted in a way that some devs think was "unfair" and |
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>>> they |
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>>> > have asked the council to censure comrel. You were one of the people |
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>>> > who voted for the allegedly unfair action. In all good |
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>>> conscience, you |
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>>> > think it was the right thing to do. How do you vote on the |
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>>> council? Do |
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>>> > you criticize comrel or do you uphold their decision? |
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>>> > > </devil's advocate> |
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>>> |
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>>> Abstain. |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Exactly, so the conflict of interest exists and there is no way to |
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>> make it go away. You just maintain your integrity by not entering |
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>> into it, ie abstain. The community's confidence in the individual in |
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>> question is not compromised and the final decision is respected. |
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> |
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> The potential for "conflict of interests" is the reason any candidate |
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> that is a member of ComRel (in the past devrel) gets flagged, so that |
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> voters are aware of that. That is the same reason Trustees are flagged. |
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> This fear of a ComRel "cabal" in my view seems to have been born of a |
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> fear or distrust of some developers, mostly more recent developers, that |
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> either don't know or don't understand ComRel and tend to see if as a |
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> "old men club" that is "closed" to them. I think it's a pity such a |
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> sentiment was born and has grown. |
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Blame your predecessors who followed a scorched earth policy - it'll |
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take lots of time to gain trust |
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