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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryen Yunashko wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Apologies for the continued abuse of a much abused acronym, but a
> > recent long-winded debate on opensuse-factory made me think that
> > perhaps the opensuse project could do with a steering committee?  I
> > have not thought much about it, I would appreciate any and all
> > opinions.
> >
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> > Per Jessen, Zürich (1.1°C)
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> Can you explain the nature of the debate and what you think the
> steering committee should/should not do?

Hi Bryen

that debate, hijacked a number times, is found under the heading 

"Re: Human readable, what is that? (was [12.1] massive data loss
in /var/tmp/)". 

The heading is not very reresentative wrt this topic, but one of the
later branches reminded me of the gcc and egcs situation in the late
90s. 

Conservative vs. progressive.  

When reading up on the gcc/egcs history, I saw the following on
wikipedia:

"The steering committee was founded in 1998 with the intent of
preventing any particular individual, group or organization from
getting control over the project. Its primary purpose is to make major
decisions in the best interests of the GCC project and to ensure that
the project adheres to its fundamental principles found in the
project's mission statement."

(http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html)

I'm not trying to make any sort of comparison, openSUSE is clearly not
gcc, but the above sounds like something we could do with too. Please
don't get sidetracked on any gcc/egcs comparison, gcc was merely what
prompted the idea.


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