Jim Henderson wrote:
If you consider that the people we're talking about the pre-selection being made for are "new users who don't know what to pick", I think the argument is a bit stronger. I've only been a Linux user for about 15 years, and I wouldn't have known that this was in openFATE if it hadn't come up here.
So it's reasonable to assume that people who aren't active in the community (which may include many new users) wouldn't know about those surveys or have taken the time to participate in them.
Also, if the enhancement is perceived as being to benefit KDE users, GNOME users may well not feel it's appropriate to interject their opinion in the proposal because it appears to be a proposal for KDE. Not saying that it is, but that could be the light that some people see it in, which would skew the "voting".
I'm sorry but if you have a choice of a vocal community vs silent community it is the vocal community that you want to cater too. They are obviously more passionate about the project then the other community. An active community is exactly what the a distro needs. A wise man once said "If you don't vote, you have no right to bitch about the outcome". You can reasonably assume that both communities would have about the same amount percentage wise of the "unaware" or "uninformed" and as such that argument is a wash. Your seeing a skew in results putting a "best case" set of circumstances for one group vs the "worst case" set of circumstances on the other. If your going to try to interpret results put them on the same playing field.
So we're not concerned about growing the openSUSE community or user base?
That means that openSUSE is poised for a decline, one way or the other. If we have people leaving and aren't seeking users to replace those who leave for whatever reason, then the result is a net loss no matter how you look at it. If we don't build appeal into the broader Linux community (and into the general computing community), then we only stand to lose users no matter how you slice it, because there's *always* going to be someone leaving.
Jim
I can't see it declining at all, otherwise pretty much every other distro out there would be a sinking ship, which we all know is not the case. While there may be always someone leaving that gap can be filled with people who are no longer stuck with a decision they really have no idea about. This is not a case of practicing euthanasia on Gnome. The choice is still there, people can still select gnome if they want. It's a decision of what the gnome community likes to call "sensible defaults". Just like the installer has sensible defaults for filesystem, language, keyboard layout, etc. Dean -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org