Regarding the policy proposal

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Wednesday, 30 September 2026 09:43:59 Central European Summer Time Marco 
Martin wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 September 2026 22.28.39 Central European Summer Time Thiago
> 
> Masato Costa Sueto wrote:
> > As to how to organize this "private sharing with core contributors", I was
> > thinking of a temporary private repository with collaborator invites so we
> > can make comments on individual parts more easily (since Gitlab lacks
> > private MRs). I feel like the mailing list made the discussion very
> > difficult to keep track of. We could also just do the Easy Way and make a
> > confidential issue, but I was recommended against it, as the Confidential
> > setting would still include all people with dev accounts.
> 
> it *absolutely* should include everybody with a developer account.
> It can't exclude active members of the community that then get a
> policy dropped on top of them without them having a say.
> If the debate needs to get heated, then let it be, they're
> active contributor and need to have their voice heard.

I'd be careful with this though. Heated debated for the sake of making 
everyone heard can also split communities.

If we learned one thing from the process leading to the KDE Manifesto it's 
that starting with a well curated[1] small team first and getting those to 
tear each other apart behind closed doors greatly limits the blast radius and 
the cost in term of community health.

Of course then you widen the circle progressively but it has more chances to 
have a more peaceful process. The stress level is totally different for 
everyone involved.

Regards.

[1]: By "well curated" here I mean you need to ensure that in this case the 
various "factions" are properly represented. At national level you want a 
large semi-random sample from the general population. In our case since some 
debate already happened I think we'd have a way to pick the right set of 
people by hand.
-- 
Kevin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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