On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:41:30PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Perhaps I spot a problem in an apparmor profile - I can correct it, then submit a fix/patch. After all, this is usually the way OSS project work. Right now, opensuse seems to work mostly by the community submitting reports, and Novell fixing the problems.
OK, and how do you see this happening? Remeber that you can sunmit a fix with bugzilla as well. Also remember that not only SUSE users are affected by changes you do. There are responsabilities. I realy like the idea. I just do not see it happening because of legal resposabilities Novell has towards their paying customers. Any change you make will have inflence in other things as well. As far as I have seen, the same is done by any OSS project. You file a bugreport (with or without patch) and then the maintainers review this report and either implement it or not. This is done at SUSE now as well with the help of Bugzilla. So I do not see any difference as with e.g. the kernel source. Practical example, you see an error in makeSUSEdvd and have a solution. What do you do? You look at the code, find the problem, write the solution and then contact the maintainer. So what in effect is being asked is that non-Novell people can become maintainers. I believe something like that will be possible with the new build server. http://build.opensuse.org/ Refering to http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-buildservice/2006-Mar/0004.html I asume we need to wait till after 10.1 launch? houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau