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From: "Romain d'Alverny" <rdalverny@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:09:09 +0200
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Subject: Re: [board-private] mandriva, foundation, business server
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Oliver Burger
<oliver.bgr@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2012/5/18 Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny@gmail.com>:
>> =A0* until now, all this has been kept private in board-private: a)
>> knowledge and decision about the foundation, and b) business server
>> thing. Note that about a), people may question both the decision and
>> the fact that it was private, without consulting the Council. We will
>> mail privately Council members to inform them about both a) and b),
>> but still. We won't need further arguments than what we explained to
>> Mandriva, and what the governance says. But still again. In the case
>> of things getting really ugly in the coming weeks, I'd suggest that we
>> call for a vote of confidence to make things very clear (from Council,
>> or from all registered contributors in LDAP).
>
> I'd call for a vote of confidence from Council, but as I think, our
> arguments are logical and for the best of the project I do not expect
> any flames in the teams.
> Perhaps there will be some discussions in the forums, though and we
> should react professionally and neutraly there. I know, that's partly
> not my line of doing things, but I'll try.
>
> I expect the wider OpenSource community to respect our decision and
> even applaude it. In my eyes, this shows our independence and at least
> the people I know, (Chris Wickert from Fedora (FamsCo chair) and
> Pascal (can't remember the surname from openSUSE and FOSDEM
> organization) and others will see it my way.
> So we can weather any immediate storms, trolling in our forums and Mdv
> forums and on some blog sites, we can live with.
>
> So, go ahead!
>
> Oliver