Revising OpenWrt Rules

[Fernando Frediani]

Nobody is going to judge in his own cause. I mentioned when having to 
take a decision about another decision maker for example, that involves 
other people or other institution with who the project may have some 
agreement.

Transparency is good but that must not be absolute. There are occasions 
where discussions may not be help in public due to sensitive matters. 
Yes fairness comes before and that can be achieved the either way.
The ones who matters most in this context are the own decisionmakers and 
they will be involved in that.

The same way decisionmakers have the trust to make decisions on behalf 
of the project they have to decide which subjects may be treated 
exceptionally in this way. This helps to protect the project long term.

Fernando

On 04/10/2020 18:35, Sam Kuper wrote:
> 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
>