Ok, let's start with "sorry that I add another mail to this thread" Am 15.03.20 um 16:12 schrieb Christian Boltz:
That's his public face, and I know and agree that he has done quite some good things for openSUSE. I also understand that your "outside view" picture looks exactly like you describe it.
Sadly I have also seen some things that clearly don't fit into this positive picture :-( Most of them were in private or in board meetings (which also means I can't easily disclose them), therefore you'll have to trust me that your picture is totally incomplete.
Unfortunately, I have reasons to totally believe you. Even though I right now only remember a single incident (lucky me I'm forgetting such things quickly, partly preserving my sanity and health), toxic actions from Richard in the past made me repeatedly thinking about reconsidering my involvement with this community. This goes for a long time, probably back to when I was still employed by SUSE (pre-2010). The thing I still remember vividly is the "Let's enforce the Group tag removal in all packages NOW" war that he started some months ago.
At least a few things went public - see for example the link in my non- random signature.
I also know that Sarah isn't the only person who (diplomatically spoken) doesn't like Richard anymore.
At least for Richard and me that goes both ways. There are one or two occurences in the factory mailing list, where we both were mildly suprised that we agreed on some topic. But probably not more than three ;-) Now the fact that me and Richard cannot honestly described as "Friends" was actually the reason for me to not participate in this part of the discussion. But if it starts to look like "OK, Christian and Sarah have a Problem with Richard, but they are the only ones and thus it is obvously their fault", I have to speak up. Have a nice Sunday anyway. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org