Voting for new rules would be a progressive change that would bring the community forward and improve the status quo.
A status quo that actually has to be in question as of the events from the last few weeks. Improving it is enforcing behavior that lead to a member of the board to resign in protest. I can't see anything progressive or positive here.
Voting to remove the Board, is a regressive option.
It is neither regressive nor progressive. It's simply a democratic process. If you think that is regressive, then there is something extremely wrong with your perception and interpretation of democratic principles.
If the vote is successful, I expect that we will find ourselves without a governing body. This is based on every previous board election in the last 5 years have had difficulty finding candidates.
Even if we do have 10+ Candidates waiting in the wings (with only a max of 2 working for the same employer), based on my personal experience and knowledge of the internal workings at SUSE, I would not be surprised at that point that the company takes action to preserve its business interests and we find the community-led openSUSE Project is terminated in its current form.
After all in this day and age, what business could risk having their name attached to a community project who voted out their Board for enforcing the projects Code of Conduct?
As I already said, this is fearmongering trying to undermine the call for a no-confidence vote. The light you try to shed onto anybody here who participate in exercising their right is extremely harmful and unacceptable. I will not let you drag me or others who are acting in the very interest of the project and exercising their rights as community members through the mud! That's exactly the behavior that made you a major topic here already. You as a former chairman should maybe act more wisely and diplomatic in such a situation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org