[cab-discuss] CAB conf call

[Simon Phipps]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 07:54, Eric Boutilier wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, John Plocher wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> I think mistakes were made on both sides, with one being a
> little bigger than the other:
>
> Given that a board member was missing and unaccounted for,
> the timing of the posting of a ratified opinion feels like an
> error to me.
>
> An OGB member not showing up and not checking in to see if a
> meeting was on (especially under these circumstances) feels
> like an error to me too.
>
> The 2nd seems a bit more heedless than the first though.

Sorry, Eric, just completely outside my control. The conference venue  
in SF turned out to have lousy WiFi and Sun had my schedule booked  
absolutely solid preventing a trip to Starbucks during opening hours.  
Sometimes these things happen. Usually folk would have sufficient  
respect for one another for them not to become an issue.

S.

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