Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (94 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:12:44 Martin Schlander wrote:
> [...]
> Having people working against each other, and pulling in completely
> opposite and random directions and then see who pulls the strongest in the
> end is fail, and will probably get us just about nowhere - or at least on
> a zigzag course.
>
> "go and do great things" or "create the world's most usable linux" is not
> operational - it can mean a million different conflicting things and it
> says absolutely nothing about which direction openSUSE is supposed to move
> in, and it does nothing to guide decision making and priorities (what kind
> of stuff to package, what bugs to fix first etc.).
>
> Whereas other distros have clearer, more operational goals like:
> * "we're all about bleeding edge and open source for geeks and enthusiasts"
> (fedora)
> * "we want to be easy enough for Grandma Tillie, no matter how much crappy
> python code and gpl violations it takes" (ubuntu)

And that's what we discuss in the Strategy meeting as well - where do we want 
to see openSUSE go.
 
> Shit. To me it even seems like every Novell employee has his own little
> agenda that is in no way shape or form aligned with what anyone else is
> trying to do.

Let me say differently what Henne said:
So, if you want to lead in one area and take care that we are all aligned, you 
have the power to do that!

> We need clear, operational and _common_ long term goals and a clear target
> audience, to guide decision making and priorities. But of course there
> should be some room to maneuver inside these goals.

Leadership includes uniting everybody around a goal.  And that's why people 
sit together in person to discuss stuff,

Andreas
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