Kim Leyendecker wrote:
On 28.12.2011 22:33, Per Jessen wrote:
Bryen Yunashko wrote:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Per Jessen<per@opensuse.org> wrote:
Apologies for the continued abuse of a much abused acronym, but a recent long-winded debate on opensuse-factory made me think that perhaps the opensuse project could do with a steering committee? I have not thought much about it, I would appreciate any and all opinions.
-- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.1°C)
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org Can you explain the nature of the debate and what you think the steering committee should/should not do? Hi Bryen
that debate, hijacked a number times, is found under the heading
"Re: Human readable, what is that? (was [12.1] massive data loss in /var/tmp/)".
The heading is not very reresentative wrt this topic, but one of the later branches reminded me of the gcc and egcs situation in the late 90s.
Conservative vs. progressive.
When reading up on the gcc/egcs history, I saw the following on wikipedia:
"The steering committee was founded in 1998 with the intent of preventing any particular individual, group or organization from getting control over the project. Its primary purpose is to make major decisions in the best interests of the GCC project and to ensure that the project adheres to its fundamental principles found in the project's mission statement."
(http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html)
I'm not trying to make any sort of comparison, openSUSE is clearly not gcc, but the above sounds like something we could do with too. Please don't get sidetracked on any gcc/egcs comparison, gcc was merely what prompted the idea.
So you mean some kind of congress (or Bundestag, or Parliament or however you want to name it?)
I mean an entity that determines where openSUSE goes. For instance, <something> that enforces our strategy as decided by the members. I think "steering committee" is a useful tag to use in that context. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org