Den Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:26:35 skrev Martin Lasarsch:
Let's discuss the new version ...
Do we really need both a short and a long version? The long version is not that long.
"We value... - free software..."
Perhaps use "software freedom" here to avoid the common confusion a lot of people have about free as in freedom vs. free as in free beer.
"We value..... the ideals of free software: the freedoms to use, share, modify and share modified versions."
The freedom to study how a program works and what it does is forgotten here - of course it's somewhat implicit that you cannot modify without also having the freedom to study, but still I'd like to see it added for clarity and the principle. I'd like it to be clearer what the board can and cannot decide. It says the chairman has veto-power, I guess that means he can *reject* proposals. How about in a situation where, say, someone proposes to include some pre-alpha package management system late in development phase. Would the chairman's veto-power empower him to *force* proposals through? What kind of transparency would there be for the board? Say, it's decided to include some extremely harmful pre-alpha package management system late in development phase, would it be public who voted for and against on the board? Or perhaps just the numbers (3 yays, 2 nays, for example) Perhaps we could add something like: "The board decides on the general direction of the project/distro. But not on day to day technical decisions."
Novell appoints the initial members of the board with participation of the community.
This is of course the very tricky part. It would be nice if a procedure could be specified. And does "initial" mean that Novell won't appoint the next board? For how long are board members elected anyway? 2 years? 5 years? Perhaps a few substitutes should be appointed initially also - so we don't have strange decisions in case someone is hit by a bus and needs to be replaced. Generally it's looking very good. And I think it's a very good initiative. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org