Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (281 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, April 15, 2011 01:07:14 PM Kim Leyendecker wrote:
> Am 14.04.2011 23:48, schrieb James Mason:
> > What about upstream?  We can't do the "10K DVDs" for every upstream
> > project... yet many of these projects are what makes openSUSE great.
> > How do we recognize them?

I've given up on those, it's far too difficult ;-(

> How we did it in the past?

Before openSUSE was launched, the packager could add to each package an 
upstream author and those would get a box of SUSE Linux. Some packagers did 
a good job adding upstream authors and some just ignored it - so again, a 
process that was not fair at all.

Andreas
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