On Wed 2020-04-29, Evzenie Sujskaja wrote:
Dear all, let's please calm down a bit
That's a fine suggestion, Evzenie. (The good thing is that at SUSE and openSUSE we are a bunch of people who care very much; the downside is, well, we care very much. ;-)
I'm the escalation point, and you could contact me at any moment.
That appears to be part of my (new) job description as well; a common aspect in our different roles.
Not sure, if it has been properly communicated outside, but SUSE is right now in the end of IT separation with Microfocus, the previous owner. At the very last moment, the timeline for the identity management has been cut for 6 weeks out of 12 - you can imagine, which unbelievable workload it brings to us
Yikes, even I as a SUSE employee was not aware of that! That definitely sounds very tough. Kudos and good luck to Daniel, you, and the team!
At this situation, we are trying to avoid gaps and miscommunication - but not always succeed. So we are asking for help and support
Neal reached out to me, and earlier today (well, yesterday by now), he, Stasiek, and me had a good call where I learned a bit about the situation from their perspective/openSUSE. They agreed to summarize the current state, goal state, and requirements from their perspective which I expect will be a good base to sync between them/the openSUSE heroes and your team and whoever is engaging around the transition on the SUSE side.
So please let me understand, if we can proceed with a workaround Daniel proposed you and Bernhard is working on now - under the condition, that we will sit together in the end of May to develop a permanent solution and avoid a technical debt. We would very much appreciate community's hands both for the workaround and for the final solution.
I sensed a lot of engagement and willingness to help from Neal and Stasiek (and would not be surprised for there to be others). Personally I am not an expert and so cannot advise whether the workaround you mention is going to work, and hope their summary will help with that conversation.
Please help us now. I give you my word, I'll raise it up to the top management level and do all I can to find resources to drive it. If we could meet (I mean call for now) and you could explain or write me what exactly is the matter - it would be great and helped me a lot, unfortunately I've missed part of the discussion
Great minds think alike? (I ended up stepping away from my notebook after my meeting with the two before sending an update, but it seems you and me were thinking along the same lines. <g>)
I'll do my best to join a Hero on Tue monthly meeting in irc and will be happy to know you better.
In any case, here is my contact info below, and I'm at your service.
That's a great offer, thank you! How about if you and me briefly sync tomorrow (Thursday), then we wait for the summary, and then take it from there? Good night, Gerald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: heroes+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: heroes+owner@opensuse.org