On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 09:00, jdd@dodin.org
Le 23/02/2019 à 08:38, Simon Lees a écrit :
On 23/02/2019 17:56, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
that said my (two) posts on membership-official did not give any answer,
jdd
From memory many of the membership officials are inactive, while working in this area it might make sense to check how many of the membership officials still wish to be so, and if the number is unreasonably low look at adding some more.
it's probably true
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Membership_officials
notice some people seems to be candidates since 2015 and don't have got an answer (or the page is unmaintained :-().
Anyway, the concern of Richard that the board can't take care of the connect thing because interest conflict is a nonsense, the membership officials being themselves designated by the board...
So it's important to clean all this once and for a moment...
I think the suggestion the Board should be dealing with this is nonsense. That would imply just because the Board can deal with everything, then the Board should deal with everything. The Board is meant to be a body of last resort, only stepping it to take care of things when absolutely no one else cares, or when too many people care and conflicts appear. The Board are a volunteer organisation already doing a heck of a lot of work on topics which no one else can easily help with - this is a topic anyone can help with. Logic dictates that anyone or everyone in the Project should be volunteering to solve it. The very idea of this being a 'Board' problem shouldn't even be crossing anyones mind because we (the community as a whole) should be taking care so completely the Board shouldn't be left with anything to even worry about. And if we don't have people volunteering to take care of core things like "how do we run our Membership scheme", maybe the openSUSE Project doesn't have the collective will to justify having a Membership scheme. I know there are people who are keen to see openSUSE have more independence, maybe it's own foundation, budgets, sovereignty, et al. If we, as a community of volunteers, can't even sort out the problem of connect.opensuse.org without dumping it on the Board's desk, then how can we, as a community, hope to run openSUSE as a more independent project? If you want to see openSUSE be a strong project, we need people to step up and help in situations like this. Here's your chance. We're starting to see that now, people are volunteering, ideas are flowing, and I welcome it. This is awesome, don't stop - but don't go ahead doing it thinking that this is something 'someone else' could have taken care of. The people volunteering to help with this problem are model contributors - everyone should be doing what they can to help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org