On 12/03/2020 22:34, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:33:04PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> It is very, very wrong and I don't feel I should have to make a public >> request like this. Nonetheless, there is a certain type of person who > > Daniel, to request re-instatement, please follow the process outlined > in the original code-of-conduct suspension notice you received. A > public post is not necessary. Personally, I feel offended by your choice of words A suspension of a blog may itself be a violation of the Code of Conduct if the blog was written in good faith I never received one complaint about my blog from anybody in the Fedora world. Several people noticed when it disappeared though. The blog post in question discussed a conflict of interest between the leaders of two free software organizations, the Debian Project Leader and the OSI board president. As I interacted with both of them personally, I felt that I was qualified to share my observations. That topic itself was forced into the public because one of the people party to the conflict of interest had spread gossip about me and the other used her speech at an event for humiliating volunteers. It feels like Codes of Conduct apply to some people and not others. As George Orwell puts it, /All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others/. Fedora's Code of Conduct[1] asks people to be excellent to each other. When talking about governance issues, being excellent to other volunteers means telling them the truth about leadership problems in the free software world. Being excellent to leaders who behave badly means keeping a focus on the issues. For example, when blogging about two people with a romantic conflict of interest, I would never speculate about their first date and other personal details, I would only focus on the way their decision making was impaired. Even this week there are people writing public comments alleging I had a conflict of interest, but that is false. I named Chris Lamb and Molly de Blanc because their conflict of interest was at the root of certain problems. At least one member of Debian's mentoring team also had a conflict of interest with an intern. I didn't identify them out of concerns for student privacy. Nonetheless, when people spread gossip, leadership figures have a responsibility to stop it, but they didn't, they added fuel to the fire and they continue to do so even now. If the leaders of organizations can behave like that, why should the Code of Conduct deny a volunteer a right of reply? Regards, Daniel 1. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
