On Thursday, July 11th, 2024 at 12:15 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hey,
On 10.07.24 18:45, Tony Walker wrote:
On 7/10/24 09:19, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Don't get me wrong, those are things that may need to happen in one form or another. Power also will have to be exercised in one form or another in bad situations. But those activities have next to no effect on the sustainability of this community.
While I don't agree entirely here (described in a different email), structure (or formalization) and building power are not necessarily connected. Formalization can also protect open and democratic processes from abuse.
Having more formalized "governance" to protect our democratic processes from abuse would be a nice solution if we would have this problem. But we don't.
Not yet* ^-^
We have another problem: not enough contributors to sustain this community in the long run. If we don't fix that it doesn't matter if we protect our democratic processes better in case of abuse. No people, no democratic processes, no abuse.
You will laugh, but I had people come up to me straight up telling me that they don't understand the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE and they go back to using whatever distro they came from, and wouldn't even consider contributing to "SUSE's pocket". Some others just don't like SUSE so they refuse also. Rebranding, and having a clear differentiation between the two is a pretty good solution to this issue, and we should probably do it until we're being asked nice, and we can. -- Br, A.