On 2024-04-16 13:28, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Hi Richard,
the current board is different than when you where chair person - and different doesn't mean better or wrong, just different.
Your comments are based on speculation and the way you're addressing the whole discussing is something that looks toxic to me.
openSUSE should be a welcoming community and the way you attack individuals is not fostering a welcoming environment.
Hi AJ I do not judge the Board by any past standard. I find that suggestion baseless and am offended you choose to invent this attack line rather than consider my actions from the place they actually come from - as an active community member. I am asking the Board to take one of two approaches- A) act as a cohesive unit, deciding together and supporting their collective decisions. Or B) alternatively, acting as an active bunch of individuals where each member is visible and their opinions are clearly communicated on topics being addressed by the Board. I’d prefer A), as I think that’s both the easiest for the community and supports the Board to operate with both more extrovert and introverted characters. However, the Board has been currently acting far more like B). Its messy, it’s also unfair on the community as it becomes effectively impossible for community members to address deficiencies in the Board without naming individuals. An act you clearly characterise as an attack. The understandable inability for people to seperate critique of individuals from personal attacks is probably a good reason to eliminate B) as a suggestion.. but I still wanted to propose it.. else you or folk like you would probably accuse me of railroading the Board I don’t really see much room for an alternative approach to A) or B) The community need to be able to hold either the whole Board accountable, or each member. That’s just basic good governance.