On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 21:32 +0100, Axel Braun wrote:
Hello Richard,
somehow I had a feeling that you are going to ask something.... ;-)
;-) Think of it like a tradition.
Regarding the legal structure, I think the Board is the only body we have right now in a position of sufficient trust and formal links with SUSE to be able to bootstrap such efforts.
That said, you posted meeting minutes in August that suggested the Board wished other people to take the lead in such efforts [1]
How do you explain the discrepency between your running for re- election on the premise that you'll push forward the formation of an openSUSE legal structure, and the statements from the Board you currently serve on that the Board shouldn't be the ones pushing that forward?
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Regarding the discussions with SUSE, you as an employee are probably better than I as 'just community member' aware that there are some larger organizational changes ongoing. So we (the board) determined on our call on last Tuesday that currently is not a good time to approach SUSE with this - the dust needs to settle. I trust the judgement of the chairperson about the right timing.
Sure, as an employee I'm well aware ther are larger organisational changes ongoing at SUSE. But one can point out that is almost ALWAYS larger organisational changes ongoing at SUSE. Today there is Rancher, before that there was the MicroFocus IT carve out, before that there was the EQT buyout, before that the HPE acquisition, and so on and so forth. As a community member, I feel the Board's responsibility to "Communicate community interests to SUSE" does not decrease when SUSE are distracted by organisational changes. Infact I would like to see whoever is elected to the Board this year to commit to advocating for an *increase* in SUSE's attention to openSUSE. I do not accept that these current changes (or the next ones) are a valid reason for SUSE to not pay sufficient attention to openSUSE. And I hold that opinion strongly as both an employee of SUSE *and* a community member of openSUSE.