Fwd: [cab-discuss] CAB conf call

[John Plocher]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> This meeting was scheduled at 21 hours notice, not two days.
> 
> I think it was clear that the meeting was going to be held as soon as
> Al floated the CAB position paper.
> 
> There was also a feeling that the CAB had to meet in order to prevent
> it from being overtaken by events.


The CAB could have simply released its draft in progress with
the comment that since its creation was rushed and not all the
CAB members had been given reasonable time to review/participate
in its drafting, it and its ratification/official publishing
would be the topic of the /next/ weeks CAB conf call...

Whether or not one agrees with the content, the manner that this
was accomplished leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.

It is odd that, on the one hand, it is somehow OK for the SCM,
Bug and community infrastructure stuff to be inaccessible and
incomplete after almost 2 years, but that this, the first formal
"referee decision" from the CAB/OGB ///had/// to be done in less
than 48 hours.

-1 on form.

   -John