Hey
I have already opened discussion on the IRC, let's hope someone competent appears with some constructive discussion / answers. Maybe this is better place.
What troubles me the most is, that on the good old days, change like this would be first communicated with the community, there would be a poll etc etc.
I do not recall any community decision regarding Leap -> ALP switch. What I would like to know is
1) Did I just missed the collective community decision to do the switch?
2) Did Board itself decided this? If yes, is there a Board meeting record available publicly, where proposal and / or final decision was done? I am mainly interested about which board member proposed it and how were the votes.
3) Perhaps did SLE decide this? If so, how is this possible?
This strongly resembles me the situation when there were efforts for creating the openSUSE Foundation, that was (thankfully) later abandoned IIRC. Partly because community stood strong against.
Is it possible to get Board and / or some competent statement?
How is it possible, that community discussion happens _after_ announcement of Leap -> ALP and not _before_?
Maybe, I am just generally confused about the decision process and I get it all wrong (it has not been "decided" yet, that the Leap will switch to ALP). In that case, feel free to correct me.
In case most of the community (let's do poll!) agrees, wouldn't be better to just focus on Tumbleweed and let SLE teams take care for Leap and do what they want with it, but name it something like "openSLE" or "freeSLE"? If the problem is not having enough community resources to maintain Leap as it was before "Closing the (openSUSE) Leap Gap" effort, I honestly think, that even dropping Leap completely would be an option.
In this view, I now really think that the "Closing the (openSUSE) Leap Gap" effort was huge error, although I supported it from the start. Personally (thankfully it's not up to me), I would just revert the effort right now.
Opinions?
Thanks to all openSUSE hackers, maintainers and contributors! Keep up the good work :)
Regards,
Lukáš Krejza aka Gryffus
Dne pátek 17. února 2023 11:44:01 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):
> On 2023-02-17 07:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
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> Yes, the more I hear about it, the less I like it.
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> I will have to test other distros soon, and prepare for a migration.
> Ubuntu, Mageia... I never thought I would be doing this. :-/
>
> --
> Cheers / Saludos,
>
> Carlos E. R.
> (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
>