ESC meeting minutes: 2024-10-31

[Andreas Mantke]

Hi all,

Am 31.10.24 um 19:07 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
> (...)
> * Feature locking (Andreas)
>    +<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/174865> "Remove blocking functions feature from core"
>    + re-visit from last week - any new views?
>    + Heiko: having a 'freemium' label in the code - is not ideal. but more a question
>      of labelling stuff, rather than technically wrong. And not affecting the desktop
>      version anyway
>    + Ilmari: but Andreas is not complaining about the label, but about the feature
>    + Hossein: perhaps this can be a compile-time option instead?
>    + Michael W.: unclear if that resolves it for Andreas
>    + Ilmari: does not see the point either
>    + Cloph: sees no prob here, either - several other places with 'locks' already in
>    + AI thorsten conclude this from the side of the ESC, leave comment in the patch


after some further thoughts on the process I find it very disturbing
that the ESC made its decision (and discussion) without even looking at
the 'freemiumDenyList' (or its renamed version / file). Because we are
talking about Free Software / FOSS it should be necessary to look first
on the facts/reasons for the blocking/locking function. But that is only
really possible if you know the list of denied features.

Thus I expect the ESC to ask for this list, publish it and start the
discussion and decision from scratch again. And I think the discussion
and decision has to be done without those who have an CoI on this topic.

There were some attendees with such potential conflict in the
discussion/decision on 2024, Oct. 24/31.

And I would appreciate if the ESC would have a deeper look on those
patches which only make it to a distro branch and not to the LibreOffice
master (or a LibreOffice release branch).

Regards, Andreas

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