On 25/06/2019 20:17, Imad Aldoj wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:42 PM Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
On 25/06/2019 04:06, Imad Aldoj wrote:
So based on information gathered mostly from the wiki and general knowledge, I noticed that openSUSE was quite popular between 2008-2012 [2008 I guess this has to do with the first elected board] Throughout these years it seems every team had a plan, everyone has a weekly meeting (not just the board) and most mailing lists were at their peak; but suddenly many wiki pages stop right after that, it's weird reading about what a team was planning for next week then... blank.
Things that might be related: the one who kept pages pretty active at the time]
- 2 members stepped down from the 5th board [2012]
- News team almost stops completely around 2011 [Saigkill seems to be
And I'm sure there're other events that I didn't keep track of but that doesn't affect the question really
If nothing maybe happened at that exact time then what happened to all those people who created and used to make the mailing list alive? how things changed? it kinda bugs me, I'm just wondering because this part isn't documented and I can't think of anything based on what I've.
Each board has the choice of how much of there minutes they make public, some have chosen to not release any publically, some have minuted everything, the current board sits somewhere in between these two. We try to be open and transparent about everything we can, but there are some things we can't, if we are dealing with conflict resolution we also won't really put that in any detail.
I know Boards still have meetings [that would be distatrous]. I was just concerned about what happened to active teams (like news for example) who used to have weekly meetings at the time, how did we get here?, now there's just Doug for example who isn't exactly from news team in practice I guess.
I guess its probably somewhat a "culture" thing, but also the fact that we somewhat intentionally have very limited structure except where we need it, for example the rules around membership, the board and election committees are well defined. Similarly who is responsible for each package is stored in open build service with maintainer and bugowner flags. We don't have formal rules about how to form a team, how it should be run etc, our culture isn't really it would be nice if we had this or did this so lets try and form a team to do it, generally instead if someone see's something that could be improved they go and start working on it then someone else might decide they also want to help with that area so they figure out who's responsible and start helping and then you have a team, eventually they find the most effective way to communicate and use that without the need for formal meetings, although teams like the hero's do still have regular meetings. As do the conference organising teams. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org