[cab-discuss] Re: CAB conf call - communication

[John Plocher]

Al Hopper wrote:
> I'm interested in seeing John Plochers' assessment of this behavior - in
> terms of how he rates it as good or bad form.


-1e06 on form. :-(  You guys are saints compared to this :-)

I am absolutely appalled at this.  Pissed off.  Disappointed.  Frustrated.
Now let me tell you how I really feel!

Obviously, I /am/ concerned about how we ourselves manage ourselves.
Thus my previous comments about the form of our decicion making
processes.  That whole thread, though, is an internal squabble
within our community.

Compared to this, though, it really doesn't matter.

Announcements at an analysts conference, private meetings with the FSF.
Press releases.  All coming /before/ the OGB was ever formally involved
in the conversation, and /after/ it was obvious that the community was
skeptical at best about the idea.  This high handed behavior by Sun's
Management disappoints me - it implies that they do not consider that
the OpenSolaris community, thru the OGB, to be a key stakeholder in
this arena.

It is /EXACTLY/ this behavior (saying one thing publicly, then going off
and doing something to undermine it) that has created the pervasive
distrust OF Sun in the open source community. This cancerous feeling that,
under the public posturing, there is a hidden subversive agenda.

These anouncements, press releases and blogs all seem to say that
someone /else/ is effectively pretending to speak for us.

In some sense, the tables are turned.  First, we have the OGB speaking
without Simon.   Now, we seem to have Simon speaking without the OGB.
It would be humorous if it wasn't so disruptive to our community.

Both of these issues /are/ related.  The CAB/OGB has so far been
virtually invisible, ineffective and irrelevant.  Sun still has no clue
as to how they need to be interacting with the OpenSolaris community.
The community itself is disorganized and frustrated.

If there was ONE thing that the OGB could /do/ with the rest of its
term, it would be to fix this disconnect and get itself inserted into
these pre-decision making dialogs that Jonathan and Rich are having. On
whatever topics de-jour that are relevant.  We need you, the OGB, to
figure out how to give our community seat, voice and vote in those
discussions.

   -John