I got my credential email and went to the ballot. While I understand that voting is not open yet, is the ballot text finalized and if so has the openSUSE Board reviewed and approved that it positions the decision being made in a clear and fully transparent way? Without knowing any further background, the way the current ballot information is presented, it is biased towards a "Yes" answer. Basically stating that we need to make a decision to change the name or not because keeping the name might be challenging. To be interpreted as "Should we make things easier and change the name?" Well sure! If it makes things easier! -Scott On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 23:01 +0800, Ish Sookun wrote:
It's me again fellow openSUSE Members.
You must have received your vote link and credential by now but voting will open automatically at UTC midnight only.
I apologize for this confusion. I will have limited access to the internet in the next few hours and therefore to be on the safe side I preferred sending you your credentials already.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
On 10/9/19 10:12 PM, Ish Sookun wrote:
Dear openSUSE Members,
There have been long discussions on the openSUSE Project mailing list about the pros and cons of a the project name change. The discussions contain a lot of arguments in favor or against such a change.
The community appears divided over this matter and under such circumstances it is not easy to draw consensus by just looking at the mailing list discussions. The board asked for a project name change vote to obtain a clearer picture of the community's decision.
The vote will open on 10 October 2019 and end on 31 October 2019. Members will receive their vote link and credential in an email sent to their openSUSE email alias. Three weeks ago an email [1] was sent to the project mailing list to inform members of this vote and thus giving everyone enough time to check whether their openSUSE email alias is redirecting emails properly. A second reminder [2] was sent about a week ago.
If you haven't had time to update your member email alias, you can still do so by sending an email to admin@opensuse.org. Please reach out to the Election Officials through election-officials@opensuse.org if you are having any trouble receiving your vote link.
The vote page asks whether we change the project name and the answer option is either "yes" or "no". The result of the vote will be announced on 1 November 2019.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
(from the Election Committee)
[1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2019-09/msg00005.html [2] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2019-09/msg00062.html