On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:42 PM Simon Lees
On 25/06/2019 04:06, Imad Aldoj wrote:
So based on information gathered mostly from the wiki and general knowledge, I noticed that openSUSE was quite popular between 2008-2012 [2008 I guess this has to do with the first elected board] Throughout these years it seems every team had a plan, everyone has a weekly meeting (not just the board) and most mailing lists were at their peak; but suddenly many wiki pages stop right after that, it's weird reading about what a team was planning for next week then... blank.
Things that might be related: - 2 members stepped down from the 5th board [2012] - News team almost stops completely around 2011 [Saigkill seems to be the one who kept pages pretty active at the time] And I'm sure there're other events that I didn't keep track of but that doesn't affect the question really
If nothing maybe happened at that exact time then what happened to all those people who created and used to make the mailing list alive? how things changed? it kinda bugs me, I'm just wondering because this part isn't documented and I can't think of anything based on what I've.
Each board has the choice of how much of there minutes they make public, some have chosen to not release any publically, some have minuted everything, the current board sits somewhere in between these two. We try to be open and transparent about everything we can, but there are some things we can't, if we are dealing with conflict resolution we also won't really put that in any detail.
I know Boards still have meetings [that would be distatrous]. I was just concerned about what happened to active teams (like news for example) who used to have weekly meetings at the time, how did we get here?, now there's just Doug for example who isn't exactly from news team in practice I guess.
Another thing to consider more generally is tools have got better and mailing lists aren't necessarily the best thing for everything anymore. For example most openSUSE teams have moved there code to github and use some of its features such as creating issues a lot more then posting on mailing lists, similarly other teams are using telegram or slack and some such as the artwork team have now basically replaced that mailing list with a discord channel because they find it quicker and more convenient for collaborating. For example all the concepts for a new logo have either been discussed on the opensuse branding github project or discord, 10 years ago such discussions would have happened on mailing lists.
Yeah that certainly makes sense but now there's a link missing for people who want to join because if you take a look at the wiki the default way to join a team is to contact the team's mailing list or IRC which only a few can be considered active by now (and those are for general support, not team-specific) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org