Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (73 mails)

["Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Lubos Lunak<l.lunak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 31 of July 2009, Michael Loeffler wrote:

> > - we simplify the installation by one click for 2/3 of our users, according
> > to question no. 11 in our  last openSUSE survey [3] made in 11.0 time
> > frame
>  I'm not aware of any other major distribution requiring this kind of decision
> during their installation - is there one?

It's been a while since I installed any other distros, but the "major"
distros, we're probably unique here.

However - if we want to go down this route, shall we remove all other
dialogs and choices that aren't found in other installers?

> > Some other observations I have with respect about this feature:
> > - inviting people through blogs, web pages, mailing lists or twitter to
> > vote has potential to set the credibility of the voting system at risk as
> > people not involved with openSUSE or not using openSUSE express their
> > thoughts
>
>  :-/ ... no way to prevent that, though, and where does one set the limit of
> who still is worthy voting and who is not?

Sure there is. I'm not convinced that voting should be open to any and all.

We had a jump in registered users following this feature of more than
200 users, which means to me a bunch of people who may not have had an
interest in participating in openSUSE decision making have suddenly
taken an interest in one feature.

Now -- if this means we have >200 potential contributors who are going
to remain involved, great! If it means we have >200 people who just
want to say "+1 KDE" and then go back to being not involved, not so
good.

> > - the feature shows the success of opening up the openSUSE
> > project. Few years ago decisions were made by Novell and nowadays decisions
> > are challenged by our community.
>
>  If this feature gets approved, it would certainly show that openSUSE is
> really open and not just something that Novell fully controls.

Novell does want the project to be "really open" and I don't believe
it would stand in the way of this feature. But, that doesn't make this
something wise to do just to demonstrate that the project can go in a
different direction than Novell.

Best,

Zonker
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