Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 09:03:21 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Onsdag den 24. marts 2010 22:40:18 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
So basically I'm looking to see what you the KDE Community feel is missing, an issue, could be improved etc. Also crucially how do you think any of the issues can be resolved.
I'm not sure exactly what kind of answers you're looking for. But here are some stray thoughts of mine about the state of the geeko nation.
The main thing we're missing is a clear goal and direction. Wanting to be "the best community distro available" is too vague and can mean a ton of different things to different people. As a comparison I think Ubuntu and Fedora have goals and identities that are operational and that it's pretty clear to most people what they are and what they want to do.
+1, Still I think there is no real push towards a tighter knit community with more aligned goals, the devel projects don't really interact much with each other. So stuff like their "let's be more power conservative", or "faster boot" only happens when each devel project feels like it (not like it doesn't happen at all)
In terms of infrastructure, I think we're more likely to have too much of it than missing anything. Though I sometimes miss a good and easy way to get an overview of who maintains (or doesn't maintain) what packages, what jobs currently need to be done, and good handling of package requests. I think anonymous access is still important (but comming, I am not pushing here), this will help gaining respect in other communities, like do good example projects as netbook reference platform. Infrastructure is too much Novell account dependent =(
In terms of software I think the main things holding the distro back are: * broken ATi repo (guess we're defenseless here) * updater applet (used by ~99% of users almost daily for important tasks, but is sooo not working smooth, and obviously not a priority) * yast and zypper hiding vendor change update availability from non-experts
Other than that I think we're in good shape. Just need to keep working and continually do decent releases, and we should return to former strength and more - if we can avoid more PR disasters and disastrous releases (10.1/ZMD, 11.0/KDE4.0, 11.1/11-months-of-death-by-a-thousand-bugs).
I agree, the direction and pace is good, the boosters program does good work to open up infrastructure and access for new contributorts. Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org