On Mon 2021-01-18, Richard Brown wrote:
7. There is no mention of several other openSUSE Sub Projects including YaST, Kiwi and Uyuni
I checked in with the Uyuni folks last year, and they did not see Uyuni as an openSUSE (sub)project and, at that point, did not want to change that. That can evolve, of course, but maybe something like affilated projects makes sense?
I can make a new team for a new initiative today, any team can decide to cease work quietly or noisily tomorrow.
That's a good point. And..
Plus not all of our current teams are necessarily open to anyone to just roll up and join, some teams are more open than others, and that's fine.
...in some cases it even requires an election or nomination by the board to join a team. ;-) I believe there's, very roughly, three flavors of team: 1. Those required by our "constitution" (election rules,...) - board, election officials, membership officials 2. Those the project remotely similar to as we know it cannot really do without - heroes, marketing, Linux release engineering,... 3. Many, many others, as Richard pointed out.
I would postulate that if we want to improve visibility we need to improve things to make it easier for contributors (not just teams, but those working individually) to speak up about what they're doing and when/where/in what way they need help.
Yes. And it would also be lovely for teams to share a bit about themselves regularly (not necessarily often, regularly), similar to the above. Gerald