Re: KDE Neon and how to handle this?

On Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2016 22:06:38 CET Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > "The voting is over and the membership was clear in that KDE can have
> > a distribution and that the KDE Neon team is well-suited to do this
> > task. The board is committed to help the project move forward and put
> > everything at hand to make it happen."
> > 
> > Which even makes it sounds like the board has direct involvement.  I
> 
> The voting proposal was about whether Project Neon (also known as
> Kubuntu CI) should be a KDE project? (paraphrasing the actual voting
> proposal)
> 
> The 'board' message is easily interpreted as you have done. And I
> would say that the politic-speak is not a strong suit of whoever wrote
> that one.
> 
> From my point of view, (the good side of politicspeak) it just says
> that we voted that a distribution is not an unwelcome guest in KDE,
> gives a friendly nudge to the Neon team, and proclaiming that they
> remain open to help during the incubation process (whatever that
> means).

I agree with Ivan.
The statement should have read "The voting is over and the membership was 
clear in that a distribution can be a KDE project". That was badly worded, 
because the voting was indeed not about "Should KDE have its own 
distribution?" but "Should KDE allow a distribution to become a KDE project?". 
I don't think many people outside of the neon mailing list have read that 
statement, however (how did you find it, btw?), so I'm not sure if it needs to 
be publicly corrected.
As Ivan said, PR is not our strong suit. We are fully aware of that.

Maybe you can convince the board to issue a statement of clarification, though, 
I dunno. I see no way how that could hurt, at least.

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