Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
Dean,
You are very much overexpecting and looking for answers too quickly.
First of all, Weekly news is written by the community. It is not some "official" publication from Novell. So, if you're upset that community didn't report anything on the debate, basically, you're upset with yourself because you are part of the same community that writes the Weekly News and you were free to submit an article if you felt it was relevant to the debate.
Never said it was put out by Novell, nor do I expect Novell to publish in the newsletter. I do however expect status updates on pressing issues from an official body.
Second of all, let's look at the date here. It is August 15th, middle of the month. This debate started about two weeks ago (give or take a day or so.) Slow down, kid! Give the decision-makers a chance to digest what has been said on both sides of the debate and come up with a sane decision. I mean, seriously! 11.2 isn't coming out until November. The huge amount of mail pumped into the several threads on this subject have slowed many of us down in attempting to read what has been said.
Great update. Now would that have been so hard to put into the newsletter?
Third of all, a decision will be coming soon enough. I know it is being actively looked at. But baseless accusations such as "hoping that the issue will disappear" is precisely what slows down the decision-making process. This debate has had many good points made on both sides, but it has also been fraught with conjecture, wild assumptions, and baseless accusations that have detracted from the main issue itself. How you managed to interpret a debate that has only started 2 weeks ago into "shh, let's hope people forget about it" is beyond me and is a disservice to the very proposal that sparked this debate. This topic is foremost in many people's minds and NO ONE is attempting to avoid the issue.
I wouldn't say it's baseless as features are closed on openFATE all the time because they are deemed not important enough and there has been literally thousands of bugzilla report that have been put off into never neverland and never brought through to the next release. They are killed with reasons like "not enough time" or "too late in development cycle" instead of being brought forth to the next release. Dean -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org