Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Peter Flodin <pflodin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to raise the subject of openSUSE governance.

At the moment openSUSE is governed by the openSUSE core team
http://www.opensuse.org/Core_Team

I have a few questions. How are decisions made? By some democratic
informal voting or agreement? Or is it ruled by Andreas or Adrian? :-)
or whoever actually takes on a particular responsibility makes the
final decision for that area?

The page http://www.opensuse.org/Core_Team_Issues shows that the team
is trying to be more transparent. I would like to know what the view
of the team is towards the inclusion of one or more Community members
(or representatives) on the Core Team. I would see that this would be
more symbolic than anything else, but would show the commitment that
SUSE has towards the community. I would see the person being involved
in discussions, planning, and putting the view of the community
across, unhindered by being an employee.


Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin.