On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:48:01 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Il giorno gio, 06/08/2009 alle 22.41 +0000, Jim Henderson ha scritto:
So we're not concerned about growing the openSUSE community or user base?
That means that openSUSE is poised for a decline, one way or the other.
Yes. At the moment it is, and it is not due to the default desktop choice, but on one side to the fact that openSUSE is stuck to what Novell needs, and on the other the community does not have enough resources in terms of contributors to keep it going ahead.
In summary, there is no practical plan for its future, at least to my knowledge. The best I can think to is a project in "maintenance mode" right now.
If that's the core problem, then the DE discussion is the least of our worries.....
If we have people leaving and aren't seeking users to replace those who leave for whatever reason, then the result is a net loss no matter how you look at it. If we don't build appeal into the broader Linux community (and into the general computing community), then we only stand to lose users no matter how you slice it, because there's *always* going to be someone leaving.
I agree. But how this can go step by step with the _divisive_ discussion on the default desktop is not clear.
I agree with this, but at the same time, there are those in the KDE camp who take silence as agreement - it's a no-win situation for the GNOME users from that perspective. Either the discussion continues so the GNOME users have a voice, or the KDE users say "you didn't vote against it or participate in the decision making process, so we win". It's hard to participate in a discussion and not participate in the discussion at the same time. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org