Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensuse.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-06-29 13:36]:
> Guido Berhoerster wrote:
>
> > I find this one exemplary for the arbitraryness of the whole
> > strategy debate 
>
> To me it looked more like "the impossible option", which is only there
> to put more focus on the others. 
>
> > which seems to be centered around the notion that having a new
> > stratgey is an end in itself while completely disregarding the
> > existing community structure and the needs and preferences of users
> > and contributors. 
>
> I think the issue is that we have no suitable method of ascertaining
> those needs and preferences. 

IIRC there was a user survey recently, I don't know if the
results have been/are going to be published. It should give at
least a hint at current usage patterns and community structure
altough the the representativeness of such an online survey about
freely obtainable product is of course questionable.
However, through the build service it should be possible to get a
more accurate picture in what areas people are contributing, in
particular the distribution of contributions from outside Novell
might be of interest here. The rest can only be gathered from
input through this list, but not every contributor (member or
not) might even be aware of the discussion taking place.

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Guido Berhoerster
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