Hi Michael,
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:03 +0200, Michael Loeffler wrote:
a) the openSUSE Board as of the Guiding Principles [1] is not supposed to make decisions but recommendations:
Wow; really ? so when it says "The board should document decisions and policies." - it basically has a secretarial role of writing down the decisions made by others ? :-) is there any kind of decision it can make ? No, there isn't. The Guiding Principles were shaped around 2 years ago with the community and agreed on. We believe in the existing open source development processes and
Moin, On Friday 07 August 2009 10:50:40 Michael Meeks wrote: the corresponding decision making processes. And the previous years have shown that this worked out pretty well. Most decisions are made by upstream projects, by teams and maintainers working in the openSUSE project.
* Act as a central point of contact * Help resolve conflicts * Communicate community interests to Novell
A large part of this debate is framed in terms of "what the community wants", "obeying the will of the community, as expressed in openFATE" and so on :-) As such, it would be interesting to hear the board's recommendation on this topic.
Anyhow - I'm glad you're committed to talking to the board before making your decision - and I look forward to closure on this topic. Personally, I (and perhaps you?) would feel far happier if the board were collectively responsible for such charged decisions - and find it hard to believe we created a 'board' with no executive authority ? :-)
The current discussion about a radio button is the first for years now which obviously splits two groups and might need a decision by a superior body. Therefor we'll use the openSUSE conference to define if such body is needed and if yes how to form it. Best Michael
Regards,
Michael.
-- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex