Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

[Adam Miller]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Thanks for your clarification.  I think it is great to ask questions, I
> ask a lot of them myself.  I question how productive it is to all of us
> though, to ask questions if the starting point of those questions is
> incorrect.
>
> My sense here was that a few words on a wiki page struck you the wrong
> way so instead of going to the people that wrote them by asking, "Hey,
> what do you guys mean?  These _______ things concern me for these
> reasons."  It was first asked instead to a mailing list that didn't
> write them :).
>
> I specifically requested feedback on advisory-board for this very
> purpose and received no responses.  Is there something I could have done
> better on advisory-board list to engage the people that have
> participated so freely here?
<snip>

Ah, ok. Makes sense. Thanks for clarification on that.

<snip>
> I didn't mean to imply that you'd broken any rules.  I thought we might
> be able to have a more productive discussion if we had an accurate
> starting point.
<snip>

My mistake, I must have taken it out of context or incorrectly. Apologies.

-AdamM

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