Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:42 +0000, Richard (MQ) wrote:
> > > Vincent Untz a écrit :
> > >
> > > > No, you vote twice: once for candidates that are not Novell employees
> > > > and once for candidates that are Novell employees. So you wouldn't look
> > > > at the 11th on the list.
> > > so two lists, one filled by Novell and the other by volunteers.
>
> Seconded, though why should Novell put up more than 2 candidates for
> their 2 places? In which case, 2 separate votes become irrelevant.

I agree, and it's a good thing that Novell does *not* 'put up' these 2
candidates.

> I appreciate that they (Novell) want to retain control of a project that
> they largely fund - this is not unreasonable - but if it turns out that
> the board voting is consistently split along Novell / Community lines I
> fear the Community members are unlikely to remain there very long.

The 2 Novell Employees you are referring to will not be elected by
Novell, but by the openSUSE Community[1]. There is a 5th member that
will be selected by Novell but that's a different story and does not
call for a discussion in this thread.

> For electing the two Community members :
>
> > Anyone who wants to be on the board should apply for it. It should not
> > matter if you are working for Novell or not, but it should be made clear
> > in the 'application'.
> > Also, anyone can nominate anyone *else* as to be a board member.
> - with their prior consent -
> > It should then be made clear if that's a community member or a Novell
> > employee.
>
> I would not expect Novell employees to stand unless selected by their
> employer, so I don't think this is likely to be very relevant.

The 2 positions open for Novell Employees will be elected by the
openSUSE Community[1] so it's very relevant.

> I'm also assuming that the Chair is one of the 2 Novell placings, with a
> casting vote in the event of ties.

No, it is not. The 5th member is the 'Novell placing'.

Cheers,
Magnus

[1] It is still to be decided who can vote but I chose to call it the
'openSUSE Community' in this mail to make it clear that it has nothing
much to do with Novell.


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