On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 16:08 +0200, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 02/10/2019 à 14:56, Vincent Untz a écrit :
My concern is similar to Henne's: we know there are people who will be willing to help, and I have no doubt they will help; but will we be able to cover all changes in a realistic timeframe?
Reading all what you say (not Vincent, everybody here), I think the way the vote is proposed is not the good way.
We should do it someway like this:
* ask for a group/team/whatsoever to propose an other name. This group (for example a member group in connect) could then make a campaign to promote his will among the members. *this* group would be responsible to make the transition happen and the result of the vote would most certainly depend of the way the group proves he can do the task.
* of course there can be several groups, names, with the same conditions.
* a other group should coordinate to defend the status quo, as it's not that evident now that the openSUSE brand is really backed by volunteers.
after that (I see at least two month or more), a vote could be done
jdd
I don't see the benefit of your approach Voting for a namechange requires lots of work afterwards to figure out what names are viable and likely require followup votes to decide a name. Voting for keeping the name requires lots of work afterwards to figure out how to form a viable independant Foundation with some element of control over it's own name, and will likely require follow up votes to ensure the community are happy with the constituational impacts of any negotiations in this area. I see the vote proposed by the Board as a choice to the community to help the Project decide which long road to walk down. Neither option is certain, neither option is easy or without potential problems arising that undermine the "decision" by the Project in this vote. But, the Project need to know what the Project wants, so we at least know which pile of work to spend time on. Because doing both - figuring out all the possible names, campaigning for it, etc is an insane amount of work to do if at the same time the Board are going to have to also be negotiating with SUSE about the consequences of keeping the name while forming the Foundation. It's really that simple. People shouldn't expect certainty from either decision. Both will cause this Project work. But what work do we want the Project to do is a GOOD question to ask. -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg HRB 247165, AG München GF: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org