[Libre-soc-dev] Fwd: Request for payment for 2021-02-052: The Libre-SOC Gigabit Router

[whygee at f-cpu.org]

On 2024-08-20 10:30, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via Libre-soc-dev 
wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <dashboard at nlnet.nl>
> Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024
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> We consider it inappropriate for a project lead to make communication
> demands towards team members (and to NLnet for that matter).

That part confuses me the most,
and brings anxiety.

This raises a crucial question
(and this is *not* addressed to Luke).
What can a "project lead" do, ask and not do ?
And who decides this, in our context, and enforces it ?
And without the possibility to enforce communication,
if at least to clarify any situation and prevent confused
(and misleading) "back channels", how can a leader... *lead* ?
How can the developers feel "as a team", remain confident
that they all work toward a common, agreed goal ?
Where is it all codified, where is the "constitution" ?
I remember that I have agreed to a "sort of code of conduct"
that can be summarised as "be a good person".
But it seems that the NLnet framework requires something else,
and not being a recipient, I have not read a formal contracts.

It feels to me that NLnet tries to enforce "something"
but is not totally open about what. It wants to protect "something".
What I have read so far is "carefully
phrased and politically correct" declarations
of intentions without even going into any detail,
nothing is coming from the heart, everything is calculated.
This leaves a bitter taste of FUD because "nobody can know".
Keeping the team in the dark effectively kills the project.
I see Luke's endless efforts to remedy this yet the more
he tries, the more NLnet.. evades. But who am I to be
entitled to know private negociations ?

If I wanted to play the backchannel and backstabbing game,
I'd be a career engineer/manager at a big company.
I'm heartbroken by the current situation and I wonder
what will remain of this project, what will be its legacy
and what parts will be reused by other projects.

It must not have been done in vain.

yg