I totally second Richard's request to revoke this call and I invite to stop raising the dust about this topic.
The dust has not settled in any way in the last days.
What has happened is unfortunate, mistakes on different sides have probably been made but, please Pierre, keep in mind (as you stated yourself) that we do not know every details (for good reasons in my opinion) of this affair.
But we know enough to question whether the events that happened are still in the best interest of the community. We don't need to know everything, but what we know is way enough to discuss the topic.
Don't you think calling for a total reset of the Board (with the consequences that Richard mentionned) is an appropriate answer to a problem that you don't know everything about ?
You don't, obviously, but I do. A community elected member was rejected from becoming a board member because of ominous reasons, unjustified and got humiliated in the process - all backed by the rest of the board. I think that this is well enough to put up the question whether we want to be represented by a board that is of the opinion that those actions, that btw are against all we confirmed to follow in the Code of Conduct, was ok or even justifiable.
Your call will only create persistent mistrust toward this board and maybe also future boards. If such vote takes place, it will put to sleep for several weeks/months important topics the board has been working on for several months (I am thinking of the openSUSE Foundation here). The overall image of openSUSE will suffer from it.
My call does not create mistrust in the board in general, but only expresses the community wide mistrust in the board in its current state. We should differentiate between the institutional concept and its current iteration.
I really cannot see how (quoting your email) "this proposal [can ever be] in the best interest of openSUSE as a project and a community".
It holds the current board accountable for it's actions that were - at least in my eyes - against any common courtesy and common sense and more importantly the Code of Conduct we all agreed to respect. As I wrote:
we can not and should not ignore what has happened
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