Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 01:23:25 Richard Creighton wrote:
> [...]
> I am at the end of my "product cycle" in life now but I have written many
> tens  of thousands lines of code in my time so I empathize with those that
> can program.   Unfortunately, my skills were not in C++ or Java or some of
> the more recent "languages".   So, I am somewhat unable to fix current
> program bugs myself so I can also empathize with the users of the programs
> which exhibit bugs and other undocumented features.   I am not sure what
> the solution is, but I suspect it doesn't involve "running", but more
> likely involves an "attitude adjustment", both on the side of the
> Devs/management and the userbase members who are often too quick to anger.

openSUSE has evolved from SUSE Linux which was a distribution developed behind 
the firewall to a project with open mailing lists, bugzilla and wiki now to a 
real open source project.  It's not anymore only Novell/SUSE employees that 
can do things - everybody in the community can get involved.  That includes 
filing bug reports - like Richard does -, software translation, writing 
documentation, marketing the project and development. 
There might need to be some attitude adjustement for Novell developers for 
many of whom openSUSE is not the first priority and I'm happy to help with 
that when it gets pointed out to me.  The question remains how to grow the 
openSUSE contributor community so that Richard doesn't need to learn C++ to 
get a bug fixed ;)

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Andreas
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