Adrien Glauser,

Thank you for sending this reply as I was composing almost the same email. From the outside looking in, I too would suggest that the rules be updated giving the ability for a cleaner(less messy) election process. We use https://aragon.org/ which might be overkill for this group but it works really well for another group that needs consensus and complete transparency for our elections.

James

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:13 AM Adrien Glauser <adrien.glauser@gmail.com> wrote:

Not taking sides, but from a 10'000 foot view are the following statements true?
1. As of now there is no written Rule anywhere in the "normative" body of openSUSE that says what Board folks or former Board folks can say about a candidate on public platforms during an electoral period. Both groups are treated like normal folks even though they are incommensurably more influential than any single individual who doesn't belong to this categories.
2. Usually it's good to provide rules like that. This makes electoral period fairer to all parties involved, and fosters candidates <-> members communication.
3. If such a rule had been there, probably Mark's resignation would have been prevented, and usually things won't be so messy with oS governance.

Speaking of messy, I've flipped through both the Election Rules and the Board Rules and honesty I think they could use a serious revamp. Not in their contents, but in their wording. For example it's not straightforward to deduce the exact number of seats at stakes in the upcoming election from just the February 2020 election results in conjunction with the Rules. (I can explain why if you're interested).
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