On 04/24/2017 05:05 PM, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
On 04/23/2017 12:51 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2017-04-22 13:37, Richard Brown wrote:
After considering the pros and cons of all the options however, the decision has been that Leap 15 will be our next version.
Rapidly losing faith in that board. Did they not chose "Leap" for signifying the leap forwards? Reinterpreting that as leaping backwards... yeah I can already see the news headlines.
Can't we just kick the board? Or continue with something > 42 as it was planned. Lets just ignore this non-sense announcement. Who is actually responsible for setting up the Leap repos, Ludwig?
Well according to the constitution [1] if you get support of 20% of the openSUSE members then yes you can trigger a replacement of the board. Personally I would have preferred to keep going up but understand the boards decision and wouldn't vote to replace them. Yes Ludwig is responsible for setting up the repo's but he also probably consulted with the board during the process otherwise we probably should be looking for a new release manager.
BTW Wasn't there a vote about 42 being Leap's first *version* *number*? A version number *increases* over time otherwise it is no version number. We should not allow the board to ignore the fact that we want to have a version.
I expect at least 90% of openSUSE contributers would vote against decreasing/random version numbers. Would be really poor if we don't manage to stop this BS.
Well hopefully from now we will continue to go up in a sensible fashion, if it was known that SUSE would pick 15 for its next version when openSUSE picked 42 its likely we would have chosen 14 instead but we didn't and in 10 years time hopefully looking back 15 will have been the sensible choice. 1. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules#Forced_re-election: -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B