Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (479 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:23 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > Given the recent events, I decided to compile a small list of
> > questions/topics to present to the contestants to the Board.
> > 1. "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you
> > gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - F. Nietzsche
> >      Given the discussion regarding the recent action of the current
> > board in expelling a member, could you please comment the quotation
> > above having in mind that action (and your knowledge about the
> > situation)?
>
> Ok, I want to file my objection to these types of questions which posit
> the tight relation of over-arching philosophical concepts to the removal
> of one *member* [not "citizen", or "resident", or...] from an *Open
> Source project*.
>
> Have some perspective. You are talking about a volunteer organization
> with real-world resource limitations operated by *volunteers* with
> real-world limitations and other obligations.

Ain't openSUSE an organization that also is based on philosophical concepts?
For me it is important to know the applicants standings regarding such topics.
We never know when we might run into the same issues on the future:

"Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -
Alexandre Dumas

> If you are really concerned about this issue wouldn't just proposing a
> specific policy regarding membership revocation and getting comments on
> that from candidates be far more constructive?

That is being done by the community in Parallel in another thread.
Some applicants have already are involved on it, which is the case of
Sankar at least, and in a very constructive wave. Nevertheless one is
forcing them to answer, they are entitled not to answer, but of course
their actions will be judged and evaluated by those who haven't casted
votes yet.

I also find strange that only 2 persons asked for questions so far.
For sure my vote will be decided upon this, not that it matters.

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