On 28.12.2011 22:13, Per Jessen wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
openSUSE currently has a 3-tier system officially;
Board members users
Unofficially it has:
project management (Coolo, etc.) developers other contributors non-contributors
The board seems to stay out of technical decisions, and the members only vote on the very occasional item. (ie. The members voted on the overall strategy recently.) I have recently begun to think this is was only a clever ploy to occupy the project members with something largely inconsequential. Those of us who occupied ourselves with debating/proposing/refining the strategy neglected to consider the one key thing - to implement a strategy one needs ownership and leadership, something we do not have.
Well we´ve got leadership. The board It´s not very strict about "leading", but why the f*ck it should? Why it should lead a bunch of people who do the entire work in their free time? There´s no sense at all. I also doubt that there´s such a hierarchy since most of the project managers are also developers (or at least working on an other project branch), so you (or Greg) would might list it that way: * project management and developers * other contributors * non-contributors And that´s only true when it comes to technical questions. I mean, if I (for example) would step up and ask for a new strategy, every member would be allowed to kick in the discussion On the other hand, not everyone has the required knowledge to face a decision about a kernel or KDE question, so everything might be alright. -- kind regards, -o) German Wiki Team Kim Leyendecker /\\ Documentation& marketing www.opensuse.org _\_v leyendecker@opensuse.org ===================================================== my GPG Key: 664265369547B825 | IRC: k-d-l Twitter: kim_d_ley | Wiki-Username: openLHAG openSUSE - Linux for open minds - get it free today! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org