Hello Martin, On 25 January 2017 at 13:09, Martin Pluskal <martin@pluskal.org> wrote:

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Hello

I have to regretfully inform you, that due to technical difficulties in our tool connect.opensuse.org we have to put current elections on hold. I deeply apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused to you.

Technical problems that many of you noticed on the mailinglist proven to have more than visual consequences and our administrators are now looking in the issue trying to figure out how to solve the underlying problem.

Election team will update election schedule and inform you about next steps as soon as possible (whether we can continue/recover current poll or if we will need to start from scratch).

Kind regards from election team

Martin Pluskal

Thank you for the announcement and all the work you & the team have and will do to resolve this situation. Due to the exceptional circumstances, the openSUSE Board will continue operating with it's currently elected members. In the unlikely event of any major Board decisions being required during this exceptional extension of the current Board, we will consider options such as delaying the decision until the new board members are chosen, or possibly including all of the candidates in the decision making process. Our priority is ensuring continuity while these technical issues get fixed and will do our best to balance the needs for timely decisions with the expectation that we should have been transitioning to a new elected Board chosen by the community. Once we get back on track, with elections that effectively fill the two positions to be vacated by Kostas and Michal, the 2 year term-length of those new board members will start from the date of their election. Or in other words, once we're able to fix these technical issues, the communities chosen board members will still serve a full 2 year term from that date, so the candidates will not be disadvantaged by this delay. Kind regards, Richard Brown On behalf of the openSUSE Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org