On Sunday, 16 July 2017 09:47:54 BST Richard Brown wrote:
The opensuse@opensuse.org is meant to be a support mailinglist for the openSUSE distributions.
No one is being helped by the continuation of this thread or other ones like it.
I respectfully request that the discussion of this topic ends and all of the people involved do not create, continue, or restart any discussion about the pros or cons of systemd on this mailinglist again.
Discussions that seek to practically help people with systemd issues are of course perfectly fine, but it is unacceptable to suggest removal of systemd on this list when it has been the only supported init system for months.
Religious discussions about whether systemd is good, or bad, do not help anyone. Take them off our support & development mailinglists.
Failure to comply with my above request, will lead to my recommendation to the openSUSE Board that we consider banning the people ignoring this request. If this is anything more than 2 or 3 people, I will actually consider recommending that the Board discuss removing this entire mailinglist, because I am sick of having to explain to new community members that opensuse@opensuse.org was once a support mailinglist but no longer serves that purpose effectively as it now has far, far too much commentary & techno-nonsense religion discussions by people who love to complain but not contribute.
So, consider this a warning. I'm fed of up reading this nonsense and I will work hard to ensure that it stops if the attendees of this list do not make an effort to end it. Now.
Regards, Richard Brown openSUSE Chairman
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I think most of us agree with you but you'll have to careful that it does not stop people posting a query about it in good faith just in case they think they will get banned. But is it advisable to let misinformation about a fundamental part of opensuse continue unchallenged and tarnish opensuse in the process? Sometimes ignorance/misinformation about some software is an honest mistake. I prefer to be corrected when i misunderstand something rather than labour under on in ignorance. Most of the thread was about giving information to correct but obviously not all. Maybe there needs to "opensuse-systemd" list ;)