Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Katarina Machalkova wrote:

> > > We're doing a massive redesign of the partitioner for 11.1 and I'm
> > > not sure whether we can add ext4 support.
>
> At this point of time, I'm sorry to tell we can't :( Neither we will
> support ext4, nor, for example nfs4. ENOTIME ...
> However, we accept patches :)) Actually, we'd be quite happy if the
> community contributed.

Hello Katarina, 

this is one thing I've been thinking about on and off - how _exactly_
does the community contribute to openSUSE? 

Not openSUSE the distro, but openSUSE the packaging, framework,
concept - whatever it is that sets openSUSE apart.  After all, the
software distributed is the same. 

I understand that areas such as translation are easy to open to
community support, but your comments were made in the context of the
partitioner and ext4, i.e. YaST, a very key element to openSUSE.

Personally (and partially speaking on behalf of my company too), I'd
like to contribute in the areas of JFS and LILO support.  Both have
been or are being deprecated support-wise, which I am or have been
quite vocal about. 

So, as we are talking about the YaST/partitioner, the key question is:

who decides what goes into it?

Is this true open source, or is it a Novell product management decision?
Who is the project lead on YaST? How does one submit patches? Who
decides what is accepted and what is rejected? 

For instance - why might ext4 get accepted/supported whilst JFS got
kicked out earlier?  I dare say their level of support/testing is about
the same ATM.

If you can answer those questions in a satisfactory manner, you might
just be getting some community support.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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