[PATCH] Handling extraordinary private communications via publication.

Bradley M. Kuhn bkuhn at ebb.org
Tue Jul 31 01:30:40 UTC 2012


Expecting all participants to never have a private conversation about the
project seems too difficult to follow.  Notwithstanding the "extraordinary
cases" exception, it seems likely that impromptu conversations will
nevertheless occur.

Therefore, this additional clause handles the inevitable case of what to
do when such a private conversation occurs: namely, publish some sort of
summary or the like in a public forum.

The public forum type is left as merely "suitable", since the project may
or may not have a mailing list (copyleft-next does, but others might not,
as this rule allows for it but does not require it).

Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org>
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 CONTRIBUTING |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 4aa7964..feb615e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ necessitates the following rules of participation:
   * Except in extraordinary cases, private telephone calls, private
     teleconferences and private in-person meetings shall not be used
     to discuss substantive development of this project.
-
+    Should such private communications nevertheless occur, participants in
+    such communications are expected to publish summaries of any relevant
+    dicussions in a suitable public forum.
 
 Public Source Locations
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-- 
1.7.2.5


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Fontana, for future reference, which of this do you actually prefer?
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   -- bkuhn

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