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From: "Romain d'Alverny" <rdalverny@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:33:19 +0200
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Oliver Burger
<oliver.bgr@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 15.05.2012 10:23, schrieb Anne Nicolas:
>
>>
>> So we have to answer quite quickly and together. What I (personally)
>> think about this:
>> - Mageia should not join that work group because we do have defined our
>> own governance model and what is proposed here would change it
>> - Mageia is an independant project and must stay as it
>> - Having a clear position now will show we are ok to have mdv in
>> ecosystem but it will not change our principles
>>
>> WDYT ? Mdv official announcement is planned for tomorrow
>>
> Fully agreed.
> - We should not accept any changes in our organizational structure on behalf
> of anyone except ourselves!
> - We should never give up our independence. The prize to the project would
> be too high.
>
> So if Mdv should insist on us changing anything, they can go along without
> us.

Beware. What's proposed is slightly different: they're not proposing
to change Mageia, but for Mageia representatives to join their
workgroup for a foundation (and the said foundation afterwise).

So it's more a matter of staying apart from their project with a clear
rationale, than changing Mageia at all:
 - if we were to join their foundation, that probably wouldn't change
at all Mageia governance; only weaken its mission and blur the line,
because merging its participation into a separate, parent entity;
 - if we were not to deal with their plan here, this would print
Mageia difference some more (because we'll need to explain we wouldn't
join them).