Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 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.

For many projects like the Linux kernel or GCC "are interesting for
them to work on" should be extended by "...and/or that they are paid
to work on".

Realistically, the majority of developers for many key Free Software
or Open Source projects are paid to work on these projects, and often
receive very clear direction on what to work on.  Novell, in the form
of SUSE Labs and innovation time for engineers, actually is one of those 
companies granting quite some flexibility here compared to others.

And of course many of us, be it those that are paid to develop or those 
that are not (like me), donate often significant amounts of our own time
as well. :-)

Gerald
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