Kim Leyendecker wrote:
So, I´d like to see openFATE more used for community decisions.
Like:
1.) A proposal goes through openFATE first. 2.) After an achieved number of "okays" it goes through a steering committee 3.) If the steering committee approves, it will be applied by the distro, project etc.
advantages:
the whole community can decide where the distro and the project is going (democracy as it should be)
disadvantages:
It´ll take a lot of time, which we might not have.
Today openFATE is, as far as I can see, really just a wishlist. The community can vote any which way they want, but if someone wants to develop a proposed feature despite 60 negative votes, noone can stop him. More importantly, we don't have a team of developers employed just to work off the openFATE list. Volunteers tend to do what they think is fun or cool, and SUSEs paid developers probably have other things to do. Besides - in my mind, a steering committe should not be micro managing anything, that'll only make things stop completely. An ST should concern itself with decisions/impact of overall aspects critical to openSUSE - YaST, GUIs, AppArmor, systemd, licensing, release dates, our strategy, quality management etc.
On the other hand, if a steering committee will be established, you also have to find people who act as it.
You're right, but you're going a little fast. I'd like to consider what an ST should/could do before we move to appointing one. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org