Some members of the openSUSE team at Novell sat down and tried to write down
the guiding principles of the openSUSE project. A first draft of the result
is attached. It can also be found at
http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles.
The guiding principles include sections about what the projects is, what its
goals and values are and how the project is governed. Our intent was to
capture what the project actually is and what is current practice, not to
invent anything new. We hope that this document can help clarifying what
openSUSE is all about within the community as well as within Novell.
The guiding principles contain the proposal of a board of maintainers for the
openSUSE project. We see this board as another step to an open development
model which includes the whole openSUSE community, inside and outside of
Novell.
Please take the current document as a draft and let us know what you think
about it and how it can be improved. In the end we would like to come to a
version which has broad acceptance and is adopted by the community and
Novell. We hope that this can serve as a solid base for the future of the
project.
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Cornelius Schumacher