On 03/26/2010 08:59 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
Torsdag den 25. marts 2010 23:33:07 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 09:03 +0100, Martin Schlander wrote:
The main thing we're missing is a clear goal and direction. Wanting to be "the best community distro available" is too vague and can mean a ton of different things to different people. As a comparison I think Ubuntu and Fedora have goals and identities that are operational and that it's pretty clear to most people what they are and what they want to do.
So what you're saying is we need both long-term *and* short term goals that are realistic and achievable? That makes perfect sense, and I whole heartily agree. As long as we don't fix the direction or targets too much in stone then it shouldn't be a problem to achieve; I think one thing we as a community need to do better is be more agile. Any chance of examples from Ubuntu & Fedora just so that I (and maybe others) can see what you mean, please?
I mean we need one main, long term goal and purpose, that can be summed up in a single sentence - which is operational enough to guide technical priorities and decision making, as well as focus marketing.
Ubuntu have their bug #1 - breaking MS dominance. Wanting to be the "Linux for hobbits".
Fedora is all about bleeding edge and free software.
What is openSUSE about? Some say it's bleeding edge for geeks and testbed for SLE... some say it's quite stable and user friendly... some say it's for experts... some say it's professional and polished. But it can't be all those things at the same time, and the result is we have people pulling in different directions cuz there's no real agreement on what openSUSE should and shouldn't be.
Personally I'd like to see openSUSE as "the professional and productive GNU/Linux for home users" - I think we're in a good position to do that, but there are definitely forces pulling in different directions.
I would prefer professionnal and productive GNU/Linux for professionnal (People making money with their computer) This type of people would paid support and have a big interest in a lean tool. We have loose some of these people with some lazy release of geecko. We must made a stop to that. Home users are very volatile in terms of market. my 2 cents -- Bruno Friedmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org