On 8/3/20 4:13 PM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 03/08/2020 à 06:49, Simon Lees a écrit :
Now we feel that we need to disclose some background and provide clarification over how this all started.
I hope it wont start again a flame war (not sure!!)
I had question on your post I finally removed not to myself give wood to the fire
1) defer handling a complaint against a community member to the following board meeting (not on the same day), and
2) in case of extremely severe decisions taken, even if undelightful for the person affected, provide transparency to the community about the actions taken, keeping confidentiality as much as possible but not at all cost.
IMHO, this is not enough.
We should think of some sort of "arbitration system", to work when the board itself is involved.
This is made obvious by the fact that the membership team was asked to act as such (and not that happy to this)
I'm absolutely sure than working to *prevent* future problems is much better than again commenting on previous ones
on a basis, this arbitration group could be made of *all* former elected board members accepting the task, plus a number to discuss of previous board chairmans, to give a voice to SUSE, giving the fact they may/may not still be SUSE employees
I think *all* former elected members accepting the task is probably two many, especially if you look 20-30 years into the future. Creating a group of 3-4 people that have been on the board within the last 5 years might be a better solution. The only downside to such an arrangement is that the community can't remove those people if they believe they handled the situation incorrectly. Having said that if someone proposes a nicely written amendment to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules i'd certainly support putting it to a vote of members for adoption at the end of the year. If no one else puts together something then I probably will but it would be great to see these kind of proposals coming from the community rather then just the board. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B