Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Reading Felix-Nicolai's blog post, I'd like to get your input on the
following statement from him:

   I believe that openSUSE is supposed to be a community based and
   community driven product. While many devs work for Novell and do great
   work, openSUSE does also depend on its many users. So they should get a
   hear. It is not OK to only raise this issue on a factory mailinglist - a
   mailinglist a regular user will never see.

* factory was setup as list for future development of the openSUSE
  distribution.  Why is that not working?  Where would you expect to
  have general discussion about the direction of the distribution?

* openSUSE is community based and community driven - but we have Novell
  engineers doing engineering work with limited time and resources.

  Community means not only discussion but also contribution - and I've
  heard many requests about KDE3 and KDE4 but so far only saw Carlos
  stepping up and saying "KDE3 is so important for me that I create a
  KDE3 LiveCD for openSUSE 11.0".

  It's good to get input and help with prioritization but how can we get
  more people working on KDE to maintain KDE3 and to improve KDE4?

Andreas
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