[members-discuss] External thoughts on the Executive Board Election TF

Peace,

On Sat, Nov 7, 2020, 5:22 PM Harry Cross <me at harrycross.me> wrote:

> To be honest, I think this entire thing is a key example of where my
> proposal to have the MLs locked open, with a side channel for discussion
> publicly would work well.
>
> Instead of "he said... she said", there would be an independent channel
> where people can see what actually happened.
>

I think there was an intention to publish the mailing list archives after
the work is done.  However, the mailing list itself wasn't established on
the day zero of the task force existence (it's the task force members who
decided that it's best to have one), and that conversation happened before
it's creation.

Seeing what started to happen at the beginning of the task force lifetime,
I assume the public stream of comments and suggestions would have been
flooded by nonconstructive discussions and mutual insulting.  Given the
reluctance of some of the task force volunteers to participate in those, I
believe this would have led to either the public stream being largely
ignored (with further resentment), or the task force collapsing, or both.

For something completely unrelated: I see someone hasn't yet figured out
that he's been procmailed long ago.  That's interesting how long that would
take.

--
Töma

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