Revising OpenWrt Rules

[Sam Kuper]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:50:18PM -0300, Fernando Frediani wrote:
> I do not agree all decisions need to be made *in* public. This is
> different from all decisions be made public which I agree.
> 
> Sometimes there are though decisions to be taken by the decisionmakers
> and that may be related to other decisionmaker, other people or
> institutions and it may contain very sensitive information to be
> disclosed publicly, so why not always is good it to be made in public.

I feel I addressed this in my original email (see relevant excerpt
below).


> There is a fair amount of trusted people to the project with different
> point of views. I think is fair to understand they will take the right
> decisions for the project even if it has to be decided in a more
> restrict event due to the sensitive information under discussion.

There is a principle in law: "no-one is judge in his own cause", or
"Justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_iudex_in_causa_sua

The point is: transparency matters.  Transparency is how trust is won,
opacity is how dubious decisions get made and trust gets lost.

It's great if the decisionmakers are already trustworthy.  Requiring
decisions to be made (or at least ratified) transparently will help to
keep them that way.


On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:52:45PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote:
> 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.

Best regards,

Sam

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