On 03/21/2016 08:07 AM, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op maandag 21 maart 2016 09:28:36 CET schreef Kostas Koudaras:
Good morning most of you seem that you did not read the "we will send them an e-mail asking whether they still wants to be a member. A response to that email will automatically count as activity and preserve the Members status. If there is no response within 30 days of the notification, the Member will be 'retired' and be considered a 'Member emeritus" part. If someone is actually using the address he/she will just respond to the mail and no problem. If people won't , for 30 days, then as I understand it they don't use it that much so no problem. I know people can think of that rare situation where an active member is on the hospital for 32 days so they will loose the e-mail because of that, or similar examples but if that is the case I believe the board and the members committee can work this out when this guy will send an email to ask what happened. Let's not spent more time talking about that kind of stuff... The voting situation is something important but here it is mentioned as an example of activeness. If a member does not vote but either is active on other parts of the project or respond to the email will not loose membership and then the community will be able to sit down and look upon the potential problem that only X number of members vote out of the Y number. Now days it seem that 3/4 of the members just do not care about the governess of the project and we have to know if that is really the case so that we(as a board) can try to fix it, because if that is really the case(which I don't think so) it looks ugly. Have fun Kostas
Like Kostas says here, the board has the intention to use whatever needed to avoid "retiring" people just like that. The issue we currently have are not the "what-if-s", it's having a list of members where some could have left the openSUSE community ages ago. The intention is to tackle that issue. It was clear to all of us that we should do everything possible to avoid throwing off people from the list indefinitely that want to keep their membership.
That's a fair goal. However, it appears that the proposed solution impacts people in ways that apparently were not taken into consideration when the solution was formulated. Rather than insisting that this is the only way forward and that people shouldn't be so sensitive it might be appropriate to consider the information being provided in the discussion and try to address those by finding other solutions. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo