[Dev] Transparency

Jorge Araya Navarro elcorreo at deshackra.com
Sat Feb 21 03:19:04 GMT 2015


hellekin writes:

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> On 02/09/2015 07:54 PM, André Silva wrote:
>> On 02/09/2015 07:30 PM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
>> 
>>> ehr... sorry, i pressed the wrong emacs combination :P
>> 
>>> what does everyone think about creating a list for parabola+ceata 
>>> communications, where everyone can read but only the delegate and
>>> ceata can post?  this, of course, to provide transparency in our 
>>> communications, and if someone wants to write any participant they
>>> can do so in private, but it won't be an official communication.
>> 
>> 
>> +1 Good idea! I agree because it provides a transparency communication
>> for us and gives to the community a way to propose our ideas.
>>
> *** I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to promote "transparent
> communication", and I certainly don't think it's relevant to advancing
> the issue at this point.  If the current proposal is accepted, fauno
> will be the delegate, and how this is handled is an implementation
> detail.  Decision first, then implementation.
>
> If you insist on implementation, I'm for accountability, not
> transparency, and certainly not to "everyone".  It's important *for the
> community* to be able to access tracking documents, but not for the
> public.  It's important *for the community* to be able to access
> tracking documents *if necessary*, but having random people lurking and
> bikeshedding at every step is going to wear out the delegate quite fast.
>  Accountability and TOFU.  Privacy and freedom.  Not transparency and
> the tyranny of structurelessness.
>
> The delegate should come to the community with:
>
> - - understanding of the need of CEATA
> - - a proposal to satisfy that need
>
> The community should provide the delegate with a clear response:
>
> - - yes, it's fine
> - - yes with patches
> - - no
>
> The delegate should go back to CEATA with:
>
> - - no, that need cannot be satisfied, but
> - - with such and such changes it would work, or
> - - yes, let's do it.
>
> This last step is what needs to be accountable but opaque.  The details
> of the communication between the delegate and CEATA are irrelevant to
> the process that is public otherwise.  It's important to have a record
> of it, but the role of a delegate is exactly to avoid having many voices
> raised during a conversation.
>
> More importantly, it's a recipe for disaster.  While you give attention
> to this, you're not working on your own tasks.  The goal is to deliver a
> distro, not to micro-manage the delegate.
>
> My $0.02
>
> ==
> hk
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Oh, well, you are actually right...

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