On 7/22/21 9:43 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 09:57 +0200, Axel Braun wrote:
** Regular Rebuild (Respin) of Leap installation media (#23) **
- have a 4GB image downloaded, and then another 2GB of updates is not smart - SLE started respins every 3 month - There is a market for respins, esp. from Asia where internet connection is not the best - Board to send mail to RelEng Team to propose respin (Axel) - Axel to join release engineering meeting
I think it is rather innaproriate for the Board to be providing dictats on technical matters to openSUSE contributors.
I would much rather see such proposals discussed in the approriate public forums (eg Factory list) rather then the Board misusing it's meetings to make decisions of this type and then further abusing its position of trust to insert one of it's members into existing meetings and processes.
The openSUSE RelEng Team meetings already have Board representation under it's scope as a facilitator of discussions with the community, so it is plainly obvious to me that Axel's addition is stretching beyond that.
Axel went to the meeting on behalf of the board as Gerald was unable to represent the Board this week, there have been other times in the past where another member of the board has stepped into this meeting on behalf of the chairperson if the board has topics to discuss and the chairperson is not available.
Please can I be provided with a list of which members voted for or against this decision?
As you know from your many years on the board we don't disclose who did or didn't vote for what we act as a board, that was how it worked when you were chairperson and nothing has changed since. What you can rest assured of is that no members of the board voted to issue any form of "Dictats" to the release engineering team. We got significant feedback that respinning images would be beneficial to the community. You have mentioned many times that openSUSE is a community where "those who do decide", clearly in the case of respining media it is the release engineering team that does the work therefore the board elected to simply passed on the feedback to the release engineering team and ask those that do to look into this concept and see if they believe it is feasible. In the end what they do or don't decide to is up to them all we did is asked if it was possible to look into it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B