Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Benji Weber" <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/8 Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> there appears to be only 2 (two!) community members listed on
> http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Team - one of which is yourself.

True there's only 2 people listed there not employed by Novell, but
the development was only opened up fully about a year ago (although it
had been free software for longer). Also there are a lot more
contributors listed than on that page, both in the community and
working for other companies.

> Thanks for your reply, but I think you've neglected to answer the
> questions I posed:

I suggested you contact the yast-devel mailing list for questions
specific to the yast development process as people there will no doubt
be able to give you better answers. I can only provide opinions based
on my experience, but if you want I will try to answer.

> Is this (openSUSE/YaST ) true open source,

I'm not sure what you mean by this. YaST is open source and free
software (It is GPLed)
It is also developed in the open in a public code repository.

> 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?

It is also open to contribution from anyone, whether or not they work
for Novell (I believe everyone on the yast team list has commit
access). The first place to send patches would be the yast-devel list,
or attach to the appropriate bug in bugzilla. Decisions about what is
accepted or rejected would presumably be made by either the maintainer
of what you are submitting a patch to or a team leader.

As for what is shipped with and supported in the official
distribution, that is up to Novell as they are the ones providing the
support. Nevertheless, I would be surprised if something that there is
community demand for, and community resource to maintain would be
excluded.

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Benjamin Weber
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