[Libre-soc-dev] RfPs 2021-02-052: The Libre-SOC Gigabit Router declined

[Alexandre Oliva]

Hello, Michiel,

On Aug 23, 2024, Michiel Leenaars via Libre-soc-dev <libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org> wrote:

>> Even within a
>> single task, different people will have distinct roles and
>> responsibilities. You made an engineering contribution. That part
>> seems finished, and so it was paid. As the project lead, Luke is
>> also responsible for integrating the outputs of this and all other
>> dangling task into the documentation skeleton of this particular
>> project. The project is claimed to be completed, so we are asking
>> where the outputs we were promised by Luke can be found.

> I hope this is clear?

My limited understanding, as occasional contributor to the project, is
that Luke plays significant engineering roles, besides the management
role.

Answering your question above, ISTM that what you're saying is that
payment for Luke's engineering work is being withheld so as to, erhm,
entice Luke the manager to submit another part of the work that is
apparently still pending.

AFAICT, that yet-to-be-submited part of the work was not needed to tell
that other engineers had completed their parts, so it could presumably
be just as possible to tell that Luke the engineer had completed his
engineering part.

Now, I don't know whether it's policy to withhold payment for one part
of the work because the person who did it happens to also play another
role that is found to be pending.  That alone strikes me as unfair, more
so in case it's not spelled out in advance.  Luke's surprise seems to
suggest to me that, even if this was spelled out in advance, it hasn't
come up before.

I don't wish to put you on the spot, I'm rather trying to help get the
feeling of surprise across, and empathize with all involved parties in
an atempt to alleviate the feelings that are running high, but I wonder
whether any earlier payments to Luke were made before he submitted the
kind of management reports that are now AFAICT justifying the blocking
of all pending payments to him, and whether there was a change of
circumstance or of standards or of attitude to justify this (presumed)
change in behavior.

Some of us neurodivergent have an extremely difficult time dealing with
unanticipated changes and with unforeseen urgencies.  They trigger very
intense crises in me, and my condition is nowhere as critical as Luke's.
I appreciate your taking this into account.

Thanks,

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