作者: Vaxrst
2015-06-02 14:47:42
Here is all that we have to share in terms of background information. The Ubuntu governance goals demand that “Decisions regarding the Ubuntu distribution and community are taken in a fair and transparent fashion”. To that end, here is all the correspondence between the Ubuntu Community Council (UCC) and the Kubuntu Council (KC). In this post, I am, on behalf of the KC, merely trying to provide data.
I am choosing to redact the name of the UCC member that send one message as it was showing a great deal of personal vulnerability and there’s no public benefit to knowing exactly who sent it. I think it is an important part of the record to gain understanding about the degree to which the UCC was able (or not - I will leave it to judge) be in a position to assess this situation fairly.
I also wish to extend my personal apology to the Kubuntu community for keeping this private for as long as we did. Generally, I don’t believe such an approach is consistent with our values, but I supported keeping it private in the hope that it would be easier to achieve a mutually beneficial resolution of the situation privately. Now that it’s clear that is not going to happen, I (and others in the KC) could not in good faith keep this private.
There are two sets of mails. First is an official statement by the UCC followed by replies by Jonathan Riddell and an unanimously agreed response from the KC with a final reply from SABDFL. These are the formal communications between the groups. After that are all of the informal exchanges between UCC and KC members provided for background. Time wise, these all happened between the initial reply from the KC and the SABDFL’s pronouncement that this decision is final. They are replicated here as accurately as I could manage (including successfully resisting the temptation to edit typos out of the messages I sent).