Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Benji Weber wrote:
>
> > 2008/8/8 Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > 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?
> >
> > http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Team has the yast team details. It is a
> > true open source project with public svn at http://svn.opensuse.org.
>
> Hello Benji
>
> there appears to be only 2 (two!) community members listed on
> http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Team - one of which is yourself. 
>
> Thanks for your reply, but I think you've neglected to answer the
> questions I posed:
>
> Is this (openSUSE/YaST ) 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? 

Let's look how other open source projects basically work (very
simplified):

The open source developers work on those areas that they consider
critical and are interesting for them to work on.  They do look at bug
reports, feature requests etc and decide what's in their view is best
for the project.  Most look forward in a positive way to new developers
and embrace them: They help them to get into the project, guide them
with their first contribution, review and accept their patches - or
explain why the patch is either of bad quality or going in a direction
that the project is not going.

YaST is an open source project!  Discussions and repositories are
public, and the YaST team is a friendly crowd that embrace new members
that want to contribute to YaST

The YaST developers prioritize their work not necessarily like they want
but like Novell management wants it. But: They do look at features and
bug reports coming in through bugzilla and suggestions made by the
community - and discuss everything in the open.  Just read the archives
of the yast-devel mailing list and you see various patches that were
done by community members where the Novell engineers helped others,
integrated work, accepted patches etc - like on every open source
project.

Send your patches to the YaST mailing list and see what happens with
them ;)

Andreas
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