On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:59:13AM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Roger Whittaker wrote:
[...] Thanks for a very complete and thoughtful reply. A couple of points I'd like to make: [...]
Again, note that the board never said that the "membership" is the system to be used for elections. Benjamin wrote that twice at least ;)
The web page says: "One of the missions of the board is to define a process to elect the next board." It's a difficult problem to solve, and if the "members" are not the electorate, who is? On the other hand if the electorate does consist of the members, the serious criticism previously noted stands.
I think there are good reasons for concern about the fallout from any such process, and how this should be handled needs to be thought through now, rather than when it is too late and damage has been done.
True, but I'm afraid that at this point, you're going to have to put some trust into the board doing things properly ;)
I'm absolutely not expressing a lack of trust in the Board by raising this question. That's exactly why I started a new thread with the intention of making this a more "philosophical" meta-discussion of the problems of organisations in general rather than the details of this one. But I was pointing out that like all organisations and human institutions, openSUSE will have to face the problem of what to do when its members speak or behave in incorrect ways. And when it happens (it's a "when, not an "if") there is danger of a lot of unpleasant fallout and publicity for the project as a whole. [...] -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger@disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org