Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 October 2011 22:21:36 Sven Burmeister wrote:

> I think what he means is that there is a "guarantee" of x people taking care 
> of product y by openSUSE simply because that job position exists. And paying 
> him money openSUSE can demand that he does his job. So if maintainer z quits, 
> he will be replaced and product y is still maintained.
>
> If you one day don't feel like maintaining the KDE3 repo anymore there is a 
> lot less of such a "guarantee", i.e. somebody taking over. Nobody might 
> notice 
> in case you just drop off the project and don't tell anyone. This cannot 
> happen with employees.

Indeed. But how this machinery of paid developers inside an community project 
works
was always a mystery for me. Anyway let me hypotize that the number of paid 
developers
is sufficiently smaller than the number of projects in openSUSE.

Does it mean the release notes should say which projects are supported by paid 
developers 
and which are not, is another puzzle.
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