Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (145 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Besides the question what would it mean for Novell which is hard to answer as 
Zonker hinted -, I think we should also discuss what this means for the 
openSUSE project.

Here're the questions that are in my mind about this:

There were three topics mentioned and I'm asking myself what a successful 
"openSUSE Server Media", "openSUSE LTS" or "openSLES" would mean for the 
openSUSE project itself. So, in total we have at least three different angels 
to look at this: From Novell's perspective, from the openSUSE project 
perspective - and from the perspective of server admins.

All three projects would require volunteers to step up and those volunteers 
would be missed in other parts of the project.  So, could either of these 
attract additional volunteers to the openSUSE project and additional users to 
openSUSE?

openSUSE Server Media:
* This would be packages that are part of the distribution, so work for it
   would go back to the distribution itself and strengthen it.  It would make
  openSUSE as a server more popular (openSUSE is already used as a server).

openSUSE LTS:
* If this would be done every couple of releases, I expect that the LTS team
  would help to harden this release and this would benefit everybody.
* If the team uses technology from openSUSE, like the Build Service, the
  engineers might improve this technology and therefore improve the tools.
* Indirectly, this might give openSLES/openSUSE LTS additional users that then
  become SLES or openSUSE users later - or work in the Build Service with
  benefits for openSUSE.

openSLES
* I see no direct benefit from the packaging work for this to openSUSE
  distribution itself.
* If the team uses technology from openSUSE, like the Build Service, the
  engineers might improve this technology and therefore improve the tools.
* Indirectly, this might give openSLES/openSUSE LTS additional users that then
  become SLES or openSUSE users later - or work in the Build Service with
  benefits for openSUSE.

Did I miss anything or where is my thinking flawed?

Even if I'm not convinced yet that some options are the best for the openSUSE 
project, it doesn't mean I will block anything (I doubt I could;), it just 
implies where I engage myself,

Andreas
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