On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rafa Grimán wrote:
- Yes, I agree: smolt is NOT a Novell/SUSE project, but you're packaging it. If you don't like receiving mails about those packages: DON'T package them. YOU (Novell/SUSE) are our (users) interface to the developer community.
Nonononononono! If anything, WE as the openSUSE developer/tester/... community are the interface for our users community.
I know what it is to work at a vendor and I know what it's like to be the interface between users and 3rd party vendors (aka Partners), that's why I think Novell/SUSE should be the one that receives our "complaints" and Novell/SUSE forwards them upstream, not us (end users).
Novell employees are part of the openSUSe developer/tester/... and of course the openSUSE user communities, and an important part of both. However, I most strongly disagree with any assessment that has openSUSE users on one side and Novell on the other in a classic customer-supplier pattern as you seem to describe. Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Inbound Product Mgmt T +49(911)74053-0 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise F +49(911)74053-483 GF: Markus Rex