Hi, let me try to explain what this means from the perspective of the openSUSE project. Roland Haidl wrote:
Now we have a group of people that is exclusively dedicated to the openSUSE project.
The main point here is "exclusively". As you can imagine there are other products and projects in Novell that demand attention, so each employee has to prioritize his tasks. For people in this team, their only priority is now openSUSE. As opposed to the past where their work was divided between openSUSE and other duties. So this translates into increased manpower now available to the Project.
Of course the team also has responsibilities, that is basically the openSUSE distribution and the healthy growth of the project.
Its not that this team is the new dictator of things and will now steer the distribution and be the exclusive club that develops it. We just defined that one of this teams tasks is to support the openSUSE Project in creating the distribution. The responsibility to make this distribution STILL lies which each and every one of us. The devel project maintainers, the translators, the OBS people, the artists, testers, release managers and so on. It is our distribution, we create it together and we are responsible for it together!
The people working in the team are all well known since they already worked a lot in the community.
You all wonder who right? Lets make this a little game :) Name 10 Novell Employees that really stick out in the openSUSE Project. 01 ___________________ 02 ___________________ 03 ___________________ 04 ___________________ 05 ___________________ 06 ___________________ 07 ___________________ 08 ___________________ 09 ___________________ 10 ___________________ Whoever gets the most right (first) gets a openSUSE goodie pack hand selected by me. I even throw in something from my personal stash of historic openSUSE goodies! So lets see if you can guess who :)
Henne takes over the role as project manager openSUSE, and Stephan Kulow will continue to be the release manager for the next openSUSE distribution.
This sounds a bit as if i would take over Coolo's responsibilities and if 11.2 would be the last openSUSE Coolo will do. This is not the case. We will simply share the a**-kicking responsibilities 8) Coolo will continue to kick the Distribution buttock and i will start to kick the Project one. So all in all exiting news. I would like to ask all of you for your support and for a little bit more patience so we can get going :) Henne -- http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org