Am Freitag, 23. Juli 2021, 10:38:24 CEST schrieb Richard Brown:
On 23. Jul 2021, at 10:14, Axel Braun
wrote: What case do you want to construct here, and what is the benefit of this for the community?
The case I wish to construct here is that the Board currently acts to aggrandise its position instead of its intended role of boosting the community it serves.
I disagree with that statement. We have collected input, and not stopped anyone from stepping up.
If the Board was truly in a unique position of receiving feedback regarding this feature request, the Board should have encouraged those raising the issue to discuss it with the RelEng team.
While the idea of this feature is not really new, for whatever reason, nobody felt obliged to step up. So, picking this up and pushing it to the right channels helps improving our distribution. I see nothing wrong in this.
The Board did not need to take it on itself, disenfranchising the impacted from an opportunity to get directly involved with fixing the issue that bothers them.
It is addressed now, lets see what happens
The benefit to the community I intend is obvious - the community should feel empowered to address issues itself and the Board should be able to spend its energies on topics that other people can’t deal with.
I think I spend more time reading and replying to this thread than on the feature request. This kind of discussions is discouraging everybody who spends his free and unpaid time to help improving openSUSE. I'm happy to have any volunteer who picks things up and moves them forward. And this project has some who pitch in in their spare time and keep the place running. I think it's highly counterproductive to get hung up on one or more words. After all, the intention is to make our distribution even better. Any input is welcome, be it from product tests in podcasts or feedback resulting from an informal chat. In the end, we have to drive the change somehow. That should be the focus, and not nitpicking about 'TODO' or similar.... <eod for me> Axel