Am Dienstag, den 01.09.2009, 12:02 -0500 schrieb Bryen M Yunashko:
As Michl mentioned in his announcement, he did talk to the teams involved. In fact, what happened was that we, the Board, brought together representatives from each team to a meeting just before the decision was announced. The decision was already made by the time the announcement was made, and in hindsight that is regrettable. But, the focus of the meeting was specifically the intentions you have outlined.
Both sides identified their perceptions and feelings and we opened up a great dialogue. This discussion is by no means completed and we intend to further this discussion at the openSUSE Conference coming up in Nuremberg this month.
I believe from this meeting, we achieved greater understanding of each other. It was clear from everyone present that we all want to work together in a more harmonious way that supports the success of each Desktop Environment on openSUSE.
Actually, that's the first I time anyone told about this in details. That's great, but why wasn't there a communique by the board or something? As the title of this thread says, a little more transparency wouldn't hurt. Well, seems at least _one_ thing went right. What's still missing to put my mind at ease is that we have to make sure that such a 'dictate of the majority' (or rather of the most vocal part of the community) as we saw here cannot happen again. We need a carther that guarantees the equal positions of GNOME and KDE communties in the openSUSE either by concrete measures (such as 'no default desktop') or by a 50-50-parity of seats on the openSUSE board. What do you think? Greets, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org