Revising OpenWrt Rules

[Paul Oranje]

> Op 25 sep. 2020, om 13:52 heeft Sam Kuper <sampablokuper at posteo.net> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> I'm just a sometime OpenWRT user, so weigh this accordingly...
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:01:36PM -0400, Rich Brown wrote:
>> Assorted stuff that I don't think is controversial...
>> 
>> - All decisions need to be made public
> 
> Can I propose something stronger:
> 
>    All decisions need to be made *in* public.
+1

> 
> I.e. in a format that ensures anyone (with reasonable Internet access)
> can see or hear both:
> 
> - How the decision *is* being made (at the time it is being made).  E.g.
>  via a publicly-readable mailing list or publicly-listenable/watchable
>  conference call.[1]
> 
> - How the decision *was* made (after the fact).  E.g. through
>  publicly-accessible archives of project mailing lists or conference
>  calls.
> 
> 
> 
> This would mean that if some OpenWRT decisionmakers were to discuss an
> upcoming decision in a private setting (over coffee at a conference, or
> in a private email conversation, or whatever), then they would not be
> able to ratify the decision in that discussion.  They would need to
> subsequently propose the decision in the relevant public forum (e.g. a
> publicly-accessible OpenWRT mailing list) for scrutiny and ratification.
> 
> 
> AFAICT, this is roughly how Debian works.  See e.g. point 5 of
> https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct and also section 4.2(5) of
> https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution .  The latter says:
> 
>    Proposals, sponsors, amendments, calls for votes and other formal
>    actions are made by announcement on a publicly-readable electronic
>    mailing list designated by the Project Leader's Delegate(s); any
>    Developer may post there.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> [1] Conference call audio is not accesible to deaf people, so a
> transcript would need to be made (ideally in real-time) lest OpenWRT be
> discriminatory.  Mailing lists avoid this trouble.
> 
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