Olivier Beaton wrote:
In my case a lot of the back-and-forth seemed centered around licensing issues, which can be fairly complex (if you take a look at the robla licensing thread). I tried twice to approach the only point of contact I had (Sumana) to start a discussion about this informally, but was met with what I felt was a "sorry the council in session behind closed doors, please wait until they make their decision" or at the least "I can't really talk about this without everyone being here". Again this is not an attack on Sumana personally, but on the process.
I would of loved it if she had been empowered to say something about what the issues being discussed were, and be able to further facilitate communication between the people raising the issues and myself. I understand sometimes this isn't possible, but given how active I am in IRC and that I (had) a standing rapport with Sumana and other developers, this didn't seem out of the question. Instead each time I waited a week only to learn some new issue was raised. I never knew who these people raising these issues were (so that I wouldn't harass them? I admit this can be a a real issue).
In this case, as you were active in irc, it indeed seems that it would have been faster if you were said "We are going to discuss it at #commit-cabal on the midnight of Friday 13. Can you make it at #sacrifices while we discuss?" That way, you could have been asked the questions on the fly instead of such slow back-and-forth.