On Fri, 2020-03-20 at 12:02 +0100, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 20/03/2020 à 11:34, Richard Brown a écrit :
Without a Board, that bridge would be gone.
of course, but I don't see why there should be no board. until now the candidates have always been sufficient
We have _barely_ had enough candidates for any election for the past 5 years, and those are elections where we need to fill 2 or 3 seats. And that is even with lots of existing contributors directly pushing people for running for positions. If the No Confidence vote passes, we need to elect a whole board, that means we will need to fill 5 seats. That means needing at least *double* the number of candidates for the election to be meaningful. Anything less than 10 candidates gives a 50% chance that someone will get a seat just for volunteering, making the election rather pointless. If the vote for no confidence passes, I would expect none of the existing Board members would ever want to run again - this experience has been traumatic for them. The recently resigned Board members would also be uneligable for running according to our rules https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules#Resignation "Any person who has resigned from the Board or has been removed from the Board is not eligible for nomination or appointment for or during the next Board election period. " So, just look at the maths. Lets assume previously failed Board candidates would like to take this opportunity for another stab at the role. If you took every Board election candidate who didn't get elected since 2015 and they ALL ran to fill this new Board, you'd have a grand total of 9 people. When you consider deaths and depatures from the project that number becomes more like 4, maybe 5 volunteers. So you'll need at least another 5, ideally 6, totally fresh, never- interested-in-the-Board before volunteers to step up to run as Candidates. And do you really think the Project is going to find that many volunteers when everyone can read this mailinglist to see how much sh*t the Project gave it's current Board? Imagining a world where I might be interested in such a role, you couldn't pay me to make me volunteer to run for the Board after recent events. We need to be doing everything we can to cheer up, support, and help the volunteers we have in that critical job for the Project. Continuing the idea of this vote of no confidence with an assumption we'd ever have enough candidates to replace the current Board is foolish in my view. And I don't care if expressing that view makes me unpopular - you wont be seeing me running for election. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org