Am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011, 10:46:13 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
"We hired somebody new for KDE" can only be part of the solution since this does still not provide any maintainers for zypp/packagekit etc., i.e. non-KDE stuff.
Oh boy. It happens all the time in open source projects that contributors leave the project.
So? It's the management's job to notice and replace/assign resources. Will was not assigned but took the job because nobody else wanted to for weeks! That's not management, that's "wait and see". That's not management but excuses, sorry.
I don't think Novell ever said it will keep any limit - and if you're not satisfied with openSUSE having a 8 month release schedule (which it has for the 2nd time now - so it's time to throw it away), opensuse-project is the list to discuss this I would think. The release team's job is only to make sure we can release. That this 8 month schedule won't bring the perfect GNOME and KDE was clear when we decided to go there - and we here is openSUSE and not Novell.
This is not about the 8month schedule but about management failing to assign resources on time and assigning people that do not have to waste time on learning something they are not familiar with at the cost of loosing time for their main project. And as I stated already, I propose to not care anymore about the KDE version shipped with a oS release but just see it as a first KDE release for that distro version and officially recommend to add a KRx repo to get a stable KDE.
It shouldn't matter how many full time developers Novell has for a given topic if there are 30 part time developers aiming at the same goal.
I think it's called focus. But maybe the perfect job-description is more vague like "do everything needed, even if you have to waste time on it because your main competence is in some other area".
And the "official channels" for openSUSE updates are also openSUSE maintained, the maintenance team is always open for help. But someone has to do the updates.
Fair enough. KDE 4.6.1 packages will be available and submitted as official updates, let's see how open those people really are. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org