Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:01 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> On 1/18/11 5:20 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
> > And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance,
> > Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time.
> > Someone from the SC should have taken him aside as soon as they saw what
> > was happening.
>
> I am a SC member, and I have not seen any mention of the progress of the 
> web site on a mailing list pertaining to the SC. 

A sentence parsed in such a way as to make any politician happy.

> I have subscribed to 
> the website mailing list when I have realized that the website group was 
> totally disconnected from the SC. 

Sorry, it seems to me that was the other way round .

> Sorry, but you cannot assume that 
> everyone is reading every mailing list message, as we are volunteers and 
> we have a professional and a personal life.
>
> Communities do not behave like companies. They are moving slowly because 
> it is mandatory to reach consensus before making a step further ...

News to me, and I don't believe it is born out by the facts.

> So, I have recognized SC 
> mistakes, but in this specific domain everyone has made mistakes and 
> accepting this is a sign of maturity.

Yes I would agree with that.

> In another message, 

Please don't mix like this - you have been asked to issue an apology to
Micheal that is the crux of this mail thread.

> I have asked five questions. They might look silly, 
> but as I have explained it is necessary that they get an answer. Please 
> assume that SC members are totally ignorant of the "23 roles", and that 
> this is not their fault but a fault of the people that have decided 
> about the "23 roles" without being sure that the concept was shared and 
> agreed by everyone.
>
> I am deeply sorry for the time spent by volunteers on a project which is 
> not reaching his objectives, but it is overly simplistic to put the 
> blame only on the SC. 

Yes I would agree when using the word blame, but the responsibility ends
at the SC - you don't get to self-appoint yourselves the final authority
and then side step the responsibility that comes with that. 

> We are humans, and because of this simple fact it 
> is a mistake to assume that we can be informed of everything inside a 
> project. Someone has made this mistake.

I'm not even sure how to speak to this, this issue has been huge for the
last 3 months.

I know that given the nature of the endeavor here that from time to time
people are not able to focus here, but this has spread over a pretty
lengthy time and has permeated a great many discussions on a myriad of
subjects, it's just hard to see how you missed it.

Thanks

Drew


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