Il giorno gio, 05/03/2009 alle 11.06 -0600, Kevin Dupuy ha scritto:
This is a hastily-written and underthought idea, but team idea came when I was reading Coolo's letter on the proposed schedule. I, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, would like to see more features and apps developed here at openSUSE. It would be awesome to be able to read the 11.2 feature tour and read about some new innovative stuff that we've developed.
Actually I think users are _tired_ to see _a lot_ of new stuff that doesn't work or works only in part, so for 11.2 I hope in something else than new features. I hope in something that works, even if exactly with the same features provided upstream.
In openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, there were several original features developed, however much of those actually came out of SLED. Since then, we've mainly been implementing upstream. Nothing wrong with that, but it would be nice to do some more innovation.
It would be nice, but from what I hear we already lack of resources for various tasks. Adding new things to do before organizing the community a bit better, is, in my opinion, pushing things.
So here's my idea: push users to talk about features they want to see, and add them somewhere (The GNOME Team has an Idea page, how about KDE?); go through those pages, add the good ideas to openFATE, and interested developers can start working on them.
I agree with this, as long as it doesn't become a "let's add something just to show we change things", but it becomes a long term project. On the short run I would really prefer to concentrate _all_ the efforts in making a good release and in making the community grow and consolidate, even if this means less innovation for one or two release cycles. Hint: Original idea and contributions don't necessarily are applications and tools. Everything that improves the distribution and the community, making users and developers life easier and better is good ;-) With kind regard, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org