On 06/03/2015 07:40 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Moin
On 03.06.2015 16:00, Klaas Freitag wrote:
On 03.06.2015 15:32, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 06/03/2015 09:04 AM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:16:33 Henne Vogelsang wrote: If everyone who wants to be a member gets to be a member just for filling out the application then we might as well not have it. The board can then be elected by the general population on the internet and everyone can run. But the general population on the internet is not at all interested in openSUSE. If it was, yes, why not let them vote? Filling out the application means "I am interested in openSUSE and wanna work on and with it" - and that makes the difference...
We are not in the danger that Fedora or Ubuntu will swarm over us and vote their buddy into the board. We are rather in the danger of having very few being interested in openSUSE any more How is making membership free making more people contributing to openSUSE? This isn't an either/or thing. When you are making membership 'free' you are still in danger of having very few being interested in openSUSE anymore _AND_ you're in danger that the FIFA will swarm over us and vote their buddy into the board. The first risk makes the second risk even higher. You gain nothing, except twice as much risk.
We can simply make our membership process more welcoming, friendly, open and inclusive _AND_ have the same 'risk' level as today.
Henne
There is the only thing I will say about this. I will neither defend nor debate beyond this post. The history speaks for itself. openSUSE is already autocratic. This wasn't a bad thing when the code quality was high and ecosystem was rich and alive. The autocracy kept it that way. It no longer is and has been declining for some time. The origin of Linux itself is defined by an equally autocratic project. Had it not been so insular Linus might have put his efforts into that. The doors were closed to him so he went on to put his energy into creating this new thing. The lesson of history is plain. Learn from it or not. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org