ESC meeting minutes: 2024-10-24

[Andreas Mantke]

Hi Thorsten, hi all,

Am 27.10.24 um 00:58 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Andreas Mantke wrote:
>> I don't think there is a misunderstanding of this change's purpose,
>> introduced first withhttps://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/116384
>> with the description [...]
>>
> I think there's a misunderstanding, that this change would somehow be
> bad, or incompatible with FOSS, or not appropriate for the core code
> base.

there is no misunderstanding of the title (and purpose) of this patch.
You all should know what Freemium means (for reference again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium).

But I find it very disturbing that instead of the patch that introduced
the Freemium function first
(https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/116384) the patch that tries to
revert this Freemium function leads to a discussion and an argument at
the ESC.

I looked up the minutes from the ESC at that time and found out that you
are regularly participating at those meetings (e.g. at the ESC meeting
June, 24
2021[https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2021-June/087521.html],
a day after the first Freemium patch was submitted). In addition you
were a member of Board of Directors of The Document Foundation
(https://www.documentfoundation.org/board-2020-2022).

This makes it obvious that the whole process with the patch review
seemed to be broken. This process needs a review and a modulation thus
The Document Foundation, LibreOffice and the community will be prevented
for such patches that are against the goals (and statutes) of the
foundation (and the community).

I expect that the ESC will approve the revert of those changes
introduced first with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/116384

Regards,
Andreas

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