Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag den 22. juni 2010 10:20:39 skrev Guido Berhoerster:
> As I see it, adopting one of the proposed strategy which all seem
> to significantly narrow down the scope of the project follow an
> exclusionary logic possibly alienating current and potential
> users and contributors which have a different focus in the
> project. I'd like to propose a very simple alternative, which in
> contrast to the other proposals aims to include and accommodate:
>
> openSUSE should be (remain?) a general-purpose OS.

But you do not address the problems we're trying to solve.

1) Provide a clear and unique identity for openSUSE and a good answer to the 
question "Why openSUSE?"

2) Create focus and direction for the project and make more effective use of 
our limited resources

I agree that the strategy shouldn't be *too* exclusionary, but in targetting 
everyone, we'd almost be targetting noone :-)

As for the poweruser strategy. In my mind powerusers don't have to be kernel 
hackers or guru sysadmins, in my mind powerusers covers say:
* ~10% of all PC users
* ~50% of all Linux users
* ~75% of existing openSUSE users
* ~100% of existing openSUSE contributors

And not only the targetted audience can use it. While Fedora clearly targets 
techies and free software enthusiasts, some casual users use it too - and even 
some businesses use it on production servers (wikipedia did until recently).
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