On 05/07/18 09:12, hellcp@opensuse.org wrote:
Wouldn't it make much more sense to go with the organization supporting openSUSE for its entire existence, i.e. SUSE? SUSE has proven to be a good steward, has reliably put in resources and manpower, and is still giving the community quite a bit of leeway.
There might be a few constraints here and there, but if you look at it compared to the total support in terms of infrastructure, resources, manpower, is it really worth talking about it? Wouldn't our time be much better invested into maintaining the great relationship between SUSE and openSUSE instead of moving away?
Current talks aren't about moving away completely from SUSE, that would be beneficial to neither openSUSE nor SUSE. What current talks are about however are both worse case scenario as in "what if SUSE wasn't on our side" and, as we learned here, sponsorships and money stuff that otherwise can't happen. So moving away some assets away from SUSE to retain strong relationship with our own layer of protection for concerned community.
Current talks aren't even about moving any assets away from SUSE they are almost entirely about the project being able to receive sponsorship through an alternative means to SUSE's bank accounts. Sure whatever we setup to do this would likely be able to hold other assets on openSUSE's behalf but as much as the board decided it wants to setup an alternative means for receiving funds it also decided it didn't want to change the way that SUSE / openSUSE operate currently including SUSE holding all openSUSE's other assets unless SUSE came to the board saying that it was in there interest or to there advantage to start using whatever we setup for certain things. Another board may decide differently in the future but if our relationship continues to remain as strong as it is now I seriously doubt that it would. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B