Hi, Michael Meeks wrote:
In summary, it is somewhat surprising, amid all the talk of the critical importance of "doing what the community wants" for a decision of this importance and scope, to be made by a single, appointed, Novell employee, in a permanent, irremovable maintainership role.
Agreed. This is something we can discuss. But please note this is the first time that people question this process and the roles in it. It is even the the first time that this happens after a debatable decision has been made. We had plenty of those in the past but never ever did someone question the role of the openSUSE Product Manager or its coming off. The role, and Michl in it, served us well in the past and i would like people to think LONG and HARD before we replace it with something else.
The advantage of elected representatives is that as/if/when they make silly decisions, there is at least a hope of replacing them. I would ask that at the openSUSE conference we can come to an understanding of a rather more useful role for the openSUSE board for this kind of decision.
This would mean we need a new election for a new openSUSE board because this changes the scope of what the board is supposed to do. People want to vote differently as they did the last time, if we are talking about technical responsibility. I know i would. People also would want to reconsider their candidacy if we are talking about technical responsibility. I know i would. I'm not saying that its not possible to do that. You just keep on throwing the board into this discussion but at the moment it does not belong there. So please also think about the consequences.
We want to make clear that both desktops are considered equal citizens within the openSUSE Project
As an example, can you give any assurances around my concerns about conferences - presenting both desktops equally eg. ? providing live-CD media instead of DVDs - so GNOME advocates don't have to hand out default-KDE-installs left and right ?
Why would anything change anything for conferences? We always present both desktops at conferences. We always hand out promo DVD's that contain both desktop as live media. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org