On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 17:03 +0200, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
Role of the Board - You state your dissapointment that the Board does not involve itself in technical issues, but the openSUSE Board is explicitly forbidden from "directing or control development". [1] Are you suggesting not only a constitutional change to the Stucture of the Board, but also it's scope and role?
Yeah, I wrote that twice in the platform iirc, so it should be fairly obvious that I expect the board to be a more functional part of the software side of the project, by codifying currently unenforceable rules of the project. A lot of guidelines regarding the main missions of the project have been written a decade ago and never updated or even worse, moved over from the old wiki, so written over a decade ago. We need to have a group of people knowledgeable on the main topics of the project's work, which would keep a pulse of those guidelines, and update them semi-periodically with the help of the community (yay meetings), so we don't stay behind the curve.
I think that's a good idea, I also think that there is no way in a million years any current or prospective Board member can be part of that group reviewing our rules. The Board should be responsible for implimenting the rules, but there is too much of a conflict of interest if they have a major hand in shaping them.
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Well, that's not what I meant, and I certainly could have worded it better. I have a lot of respect to the board's work and mission, and I never mean to insult anybody or their work in this way. The issue at hand is public communication about the topics.
Good to hear, but like I said, much of that is hard to talk about - for the majority of the agreements I was involved in, the companies involved opted for not making their aggreement with openSUSE public.
What is your view on conflict resolution?
I wish we could just exist without conflict, but I recognize being a pacifist in today's world is pretty much impossible ;)
Indeed, and given the Board's primary role is to resolve conflict when it arises in the Project, can you describe how you imagine you'll typically handle that? Does everyone always deserve a second chance? Are there some lines which deserve immediate sanction? What's the most severe action you feel the Board should take to resolve a conflict?
The Board's role includes "Facilitate decision making processes
where needed." - should the Board decide when "when needed" applies, or should the Board only involve themselves when invited by community members who wish their help in decision making processes?
I think even on this premise, the board doesn't do enough. You can't expect developers to just have a meeting on a topic, they will want to do something about it rather than discuss it. Board needs to lead and organize in those cases, which in the long run might also prevent some conflict within the project.
I can tell you if the Board evolves into a body that starts telling me what to do as a volunteer, that will be the day I immediately cease contributing voluntarily to openSUSE.
What is your opinion of the Project's key sponsor (SUSE)? How do you intend to communicate and collaborate with SUSE in an official capacity? What are the first things you're going to ask for?
I tend to be very critical of them publicly, but in truth I know very well that openSUSE wouldn't be where it is without them. Is this enough of an endorsement?
I wasn't fishing for an endorsement, but I am still fishing for insights in how you expect to work with them if you're elected. I don't think it would be very productive if the only thing you do in the Board is use that position to be critical of them privately also.. you're going to have to find a way of working with them and/or get them to work better with/for openSUSE. You're going to need a plan for that..and as your prospective voters we would like to know what that plan will be :) -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org