On Mo, 2021-05-31 at 14:32 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
openSUSE as an organisation is a famous/notorious for having a "Those who do, decide" mentality and a long history of empowering its contributors.
There is even significant documentation, official [1] and unofficial [2] to that fact that openSUSE does not have steering groups. Period.
We actively advertise ourself as a project as that does not "have technical steering groups or other people who tell us what to do"
... which is exactly what happened here. We were told to move to libera.chat, whether or not we consent, by individuals who happen to be in the channel operator role on freenode. The "those who do, decide" model works well for technical development (most of the time), but not for possibly controversial policy issues. If this decision had been made by an elected comittee, there would be at least some sort-of-democratic legitimation behind the move, and users who disagree could vote for different candidates next time. Regards, Martin