[Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

[Strainu]

2011/2/5 Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My real, huge, jaw-hitting-the-floor, issue with your response is that you
>> preferred "the news about an upcoming change trickl[e] out into the
>> community
>> prior to an official announcement" (gossip) over a posting to foundation-l.
>>  You
>> just don't get it.
>>
>
> I do not mean that gossip should be preferred over public announcements as
> standard operating procedure. Considering that I've made numerous
> announcements about my work to this very list (IRC office hours, 10th
> anniversary organizing etc.) I think that's clear.
>
> What I meant is that there is no way to prevent informal discussion about
> something that has yet to be announced, so there's no reason to fret over
> it. What I *do *find unhelpful is publicly posting about sensitive topic
> when you know in advance that people aren't prepared to answer questions
> about it yet.

How about giving up the whole "announcing" thing that seems to become
the norm lately and going with "redacting the policy with the
community"?

I second fully what Aaron Adrignola said above. I could find no
discussion about this on the OTRS wiki, and the otrs-en list is not
for every OTRS volunteer. I personally do not feel willing to give up
my private data to WMF or any other organisation in the US for that
matter, and there is no chapter in my country. It's more than enough
that I gave my real name. Imposing this decision without consultation
with the whole community, or AT LEAST with all the OTRS volunteers is
very poor judgement from the Foundation.

Anyway, was there an event prompting this change or you just thought
it was a great idea to get some IDs from the volunteers?

Strainu