Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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