Yes. This seems to have gone beyond the realm of reasonableness and into a personal attack on another Foundation member. Please don't do this.
I am only on this list due to the benefit of sitting on top of Google's pile of money, some of which we contribute to Gnome. I am too busy with my own Free Software project to be able to directly contribute to Gnome code. Will I be the next to be attacked for not being sufficiently useful to Gnome ? Jeremy. On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@ebb.org> wrote: > Is it standard procedure for credentials of Foundation members to be > discussed on-list like this -- particularly for existing members in good > standing? > > For example, I don't recall my own membership being discussed herein when I > was renewed; it was done in private email with the Membership Committee. > > My GNOME contributions have indeed been eclectic, non-regular and, well, > just > plain "different" than the norm. For example, I've helped with licensing > policy discussions and drafting, and I've done some work to defend GNOME 3 > publicly against the "Linus Torvalds attacks". > > Meanwhile, upon reading this sub-thread and considering my own > contributions > to the GNOME Foundation, I'm frankly left wondering if my membership would > be > "next" to be called into question on this thread. I imagine that I'd feel > *really* uncomfortable and even personally offended if my own membership > were > being called into question publicly on this list! > > Thus, IMO, it frankly seems unnecessarily aggressive and downright > inappropriate to question someone's fitness for membership on the public > list > like this, and I hope that folks will show restraint and raise any such > issues privately among the Membership Committee and the member in question. > > -- bkuhn > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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