Dne středa 5. srpna 2020 10:20:29 CEST, Richard Brown napsal(a):
I can tell you if the Board evolves into a body that starts telling me what to do as a volunteer, that will be the day I immediately cease contributing voluntarily to openSUSE.
I understand Your point, but still I wonder about governance. I might be silly, but I don't get how can You drive the project into certain direction without being able to request some action...? I have absolutely no doubts that all developers like You are super skilled, but bunch of skilled people is not sufficient condition to make good final product, right? :-) Surely, there is difference if Board would say "Richard, do this!" or "We would like to do this, because we think it's beneficial for the project, would You, Richard, or anyone else be willing to help us?". IMHO I think the Board should have some idea where the Project should go to. I don't believe much i fully democratic do-cracy (or how do You write it) as without at least basic coordination and leadership (i.e. someone asks someone to do something), we'd end up just in chaos. An example from our Scout organisation. If You as newcoming volunteer are willing to help with something (let's say doing e.g. treasurer for some unit), You volunteerly accept kind of "working position", and You agree You are doing the job in Your spare time, and You accept that someone will tell You what to do. It might be too extreme example for our Project, but I wouldn't disregard such option. I believe there can be balance. :-) -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/ Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/