Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
PS: The impression I get is that everything was deliberately rigged
so
that the vote would end up the way it did:
1. A new ticket was filed, in order to exclude the participants of the
previous discussion.
2. The people watching the old ticket were NOT notified.
3. The Tools Team was NOT notified.
4. The proponents of the Change, on the other hand, WERE notified.
So, with all of the above, the discussion participants were preselected to
only include people in favor of the change.
5. The ticket was filed in the middle of the holiday season. Many people
in Europe are on vacation until today.
6. There was NO thread about the reopening of the discussion on the
mailing list. The first message that mentioned the issue on the mailing
list was "Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2023-01-03)" from
2023-01-03 09:39 UTC, only 7 hours 21 minutes before the meeting. This is
in contrast to the Change policy requiring at least a week between the
mailing list announcement and opening the FESCo ticket.
7. Only 4 days had elapsed between the (unannounced) opening of the ticket
and the vote. This is clearly insufficient. The one week in the Change
policy that I cited above is designed as a minimum time for discussion.
8. The change was approved only 2 weeks before the mass rebuild, leaving
little to no time to revert it in the contigency case.
So, this ensured that whoever was deliberately NOT invited had no chance
to find out by themselves and intervene before it was too late.
This strikes me as extremely intransparent and undemocratic.
PPS: This is particularly striking when you consider that the same person
who filed the new ticket and excluded one side from the discussion entirely
was the one complaining just a month earlier about the OLD discussion:
Yes, but the other stakeholder I wanted there didn't even know it
was on
the agenda yesterday, which meant we mostly heard only one side (the
toolchain people).
See:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2817#comment-830204
Complaining about something and then deliberately doing the same thing the
other way round, way to go!
Kevin Kofler