On 11/9/19 5:33 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Knurpht-openSUSE
[11-08-19 12:00]: Op vrijdag 8 november 2019 17:49:46 CET schreef Patrick Shanahan:
while I personally want to keep the present "openSUSE" moniker, basing anything on the vote results is critically flawed as Carlos and I mentioned earlier and in related threads. Those choosing not to vote as no agreeable option was presented skews the results and no-one can determine the true wants of the community. The *only* thing you can report is that OF THE PEOPLE VOTING, 84% opted to keep openSUSE. you would get a similar and worthless result if only three poeple voted and two opted to keep the name.
In the future, if a vote is proposed, at least determine what is necessary to display the wants of the community as nearly as possible rather than ONLY the desires of those choosing to vote.
Can we read this as your stepping up as a future election-official? Apparently they missed your wisdom.
an *opinion* poll is worthless unless options are provided to include all wanting to vote and results are worthless without those options.
Why would you vote in an *opinion* poll if you yourself have decided that forever reason you do not have an *opinion*, the *opinions* we were after were to change or not change, and it is clear that the opinion of most is not to change so now the board is off to try our best to make that work. Having 5-50 votes saying unsure / I abstain / whatever other thing you wanted to say wouldn't have made any difference to the way the board interprets the result. -- 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