Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (479 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson wrote:

> As I've watched this discussion unfold, fold, refold, and be
> multilated multiple times, it's occurred to me on more than one
> occasion that the guiding principles are something that many people
> seem to agree to in order to become a member, but they don't actually
> follow them.

I would have to go and read up on them, but for now, they're only
_guiding_ me.  

> One of the decisions that I think the current members and the board
> need to consider is whether or not that requirement (assuming I'm
> remembering correctly) makes sense, and if it does, then following
> them does become a criteria for whether or not someone remains a
> member.

Let's not get into that, please.  The openSUSE community is (or hopes to
be) far too widespread for any hard and fast rules to be of much use. 

> If someone who is a member constantly violates the guiding principles,
> then that says to me that the only reason they agreed to them was to
> become a member, and not because they actually think there's any
> meaning.

IMHO, the reason they're guiding principles is that very few people or
organisations, if any, are arrogant/stupid enough to attempt to lay
down hard and fast rules that apply to the entire world. The EU tries
to work with 27 different countries/cultures, and is having trouble
with that.  There are others - the ICC and such, but despite an awful
lot of effort, they're struggling.

> But if there's no meaning to agreeing to those principles, then why
> have them?

To indicate intent and direction.



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Per Jessen, Zürich (-2.5°C)

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