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Le 26/12/2015 10:14, Bruce Ferrell a écrit :
jdd, your "reminder" of upcoming elections strike me as an attempt to intimidate those making decisions or who would speak against you ( a pretty clumsy one at that )... And significantly less than constructive.
I fail to understand this sentence. I'm not in any way a board member nor an openSUSE leader, only an old user, both as age (70) that makes me feel I can't myself candidate, and by use of suse/openSUSE I began to use around 1996 (5.? SuSE). I feel the discussion got to a extend it shouldn't have. In collaborative groups, there are *always* ways to make things better and given the openSUSE calendar, it's the moment for people willing to have a word to come. I may have missed some mails, but right now my feeling is that there are not that number of candidates for the board. I add A. Wafaaa as "to" of this mail, just in case there is something wrong in what I say, he will be able to correct.
Yes, you're a volunteer. If you're unhappy with the directions the distro is going, may I suggest that you vote with your feet? I am. As I find time, my systems are moving away from Suse and OpenSUSE. The "bro-grammer" mentality that has come to infect what used to be a very sound distribution has become intolerable.
I sometime was (self)encouraged to do so, but openSUSE is so good as a distribution that I did not follow this momentum. I may not appreciate all the decisions made by the board or SUSE, but the result is dawn good and they have to be respected for this. right now I follow a debian list, just to see is there are here the same kind of problem (what rumor says - no community is immune) But just now, my idea to support Carlos is to say: we could ban ourselves from openSUSE until Carlos come back, that is do like him: answer privately, ask for help elsewhere until feb 15. If you agree or have other idea, say so, we could start jan 1st thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org