[Osmf-talk] Non-functional status links to local chapter applications

[Joost Schouppe]

Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:12 AM Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On Friday 24 January 2020, Joost Schouppe wrote:
> >
> > It's practical to have all open issues in one place. We do not want
> > to have all those issues and comments open to everyone.
> > [...]
>
> Do i understand this correctly that this information is not available to
> the members not because you have a specific reason why *this*
> information needs to be kept private but because the board has *in
> general* outside the board meetings a 'secrecy by default' policy, i.e.
> every communication among board members or documentation of board
> actions is by default not public and no one on the board has invested
> into specifically making this an exception?
>

I just didn't explain -why- this info is best kept private, not that there
is no reason for it. I would say that considering the things we use Gitlab
for, in fact makes it to be best "private by default". Anything that comes
a bit closer to a decision becomes public anyway. It is worth thinking
about potentially splitting it into a private and public tracker, though
that would probably wind up in a discussion similar to the one you had with
Frederik about public document writing. A discussion where I personally
firmly agree with Frederik. But maybe the new Board doesn't, I don't know.
I have the feeling most of us are open to investigate how we can have more
of our communication in public, but more in a careful, step by step way.

Joost
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