On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 18:42, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
* Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> [08-27-18 12:36]:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 17:48, James Mason <JMason@suse.com> wrote:
If one doesn't want to make their opinions public, for whatever reason, they should not run for office.
Fair points, but, unlike the Supreme court, Board membership is not for life.
Let me give a real world example, as much as I can.
There is a person active on these mailinglists who in 2016 was banned from these lists [...]
transparency does not require airing dirty linen. some discretion is still required and should be supported. the *rest* should be public record.
Then the question becomes - if some discretion isn't required, then why are the Board being involved? I'd personally like to see a situation where if the Project can make the decisions publicly, then it should do so, and the Board is only involved where that is not true and discretion is required. After all, that mentality is consistent with the Boards role of being decision makers _of_last_resort_ If other people can make decisions outside of the context of the Board, they should feel empowered to do so. The Board should be left just dealing with the metaphorical shit left over. Which is the job they've been trusted by vote to do. Voting for a Board to do other stuff for the Project seems rather backwards to me - we're a Project that empowers its contributors to decide what they want. It's the fundamental ethos' of the Project. The Board is just there to handle the exceptions when that idealism falls apart. Just look at the openSUSE Asia community for an example of that mentality made manifest. Deciding their own conferences, negotiating with their own sponsors, arranging their own venues, all done in a team of their own creation, a structure of their own creation, using policies of their own creation. This is precisely how the openSUSE Project is meant to operate. The only time the Board get involved with openSUSE Asia are those situations which require discretion, because those are the ones they're not able to deal with themselves..and I like to think we do a good job of helping them when those cases come up, but, due to the nature of them, you likely can't and won't ever see more detail in the minutes regarding such circumstances than you already do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org