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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:25:14 +0100 |
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> Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> No one here is arguing that we have a slacking Council, similar to |
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>> the "bad old days", are they? |
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> A Council that conveniently fails to turn up when discussing things |
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> that either don't interest them or that might make them look bad? |
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Once. Most likely another meeting would be on the books to address the |
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issue if the distraction of figuring out what to do about GLEP 39 hadn't |
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come up. |
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> A |
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> Council holding secret meetings and conspiring with the devrel lead |
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> behind the rest of devrel's backs? |
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As far as I can see - nobody is having secret meetings. Sure, council |
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members run into each other and chat, and maybe agree on things. That |
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isn't really a secret meeting - all organizations do that stuff. And in |
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every organization I've been involved with it isn't considered a |
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conspiracy when the board of directors talks to the head of a department |
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- that is just called the chain of command. Just because we all elect |
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the council doesn't mean that they need to consult with every dev before |
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doing anything, although practices like discussion of topics on -dev in |
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advance of meetings are a good thing in general. |
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> A Council that simultaneously says |
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> "yes, we were behind musikc's actions" and "no, it was solely musikc's |
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> decision"? That's a lot like the old days. |
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Well, nobody really speaks for "the council" - you have a half-dozen |
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devs who all have their own voices. No shock that they don't say the |
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same thing (which might be why the avoid commenting too much directly in |
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these threads). |
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I think the issue here is that a few devs are taking issue with how the |
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recent forced retirements were handled, but rather than just dealing |
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with that issue we're debating procedural technicalities. |
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If the issue is the dismissals - then talk about the dismissals. This |
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isn't the US court system where Al Capone goes to jail for forgetting to |
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declare his income from illegal activities. And we don't want to turn |
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into Wikipedia where if somebody doesn't like somebody's wording of an |
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article we forget discussing the matter at hand and instead debate the |
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proper application of policy WP:PILEOFLETTERS and whether it is an |
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adequate excuse to just delete the article. |
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And if we're going to talk about dismissals why don't we let the council |
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actually meet and openly discuss the issue and make a decision before we |
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condemn them? |
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