Andreas Jaeger
On 10/10/2019 17.02, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
[...] Good description and far better than the current poll! Should we restart the poll?
thinking a bit more: I strongly suggest to stop the vote, it's useless. not everybody will read the description you gave above or even a blog post.
If I look at campaigns and petitions in Germany, I've never seen such short description without any explanation ;(
So, my proposal: * Write up a detailed blog post explaining why we vote and what are the options * Restart the vote and use the description for the vote and give a link to the blog post * When you restart, consider adding an option: Abstain. Several folks asked for that...
With the current questions and limited information, everybody can read into the poll what they want and I doubt that the board will be able to get the backing they ask for,
I agree. I'm sorry to say it but I take back my statement from an earlier thread: the way this is being handled *is* similarly problematic to the Brexit referendum on many levels.[0] It's a highly confusing binary vote which omits all the important details, conflates numerous issues into one emotional question, doesn't define a clear outcome, and doesn't offer an option to abstain. It even has similarly unpleasant undertones (e.g. "we need to break free from evil SUSE and make our project great again"). These are probably entirely unintentional, but nevertheless some people will "read between the lines" and detect them by implication through what has *not* been said explicitly. If it proceeds there is a significant risk of damaging the community. Many people have already pointed out these flaws, and nothing seems to have been done to address them, so I don't understand why the vote is still proceeding. [0] Sorry Richard if you are reading this, but we need to learn from history, even if it's painful and the parallels are at a large distance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org