Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensuse.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Administrator <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-06-22 14:06]:
>  
> > > I agree that the strategy shouldn't be *too* exclusionary, but in 
> > > targetting everyone, we'd almost be targetting noone :-)
> >
> > No, we should target those for whom we can provide something. 
>
> Exactly.  That's the point of the strategy - defining: to whom we can
> provide something of value; and what we're going to provide that's worth our
> time, effort, resources to provide.

Yeah, but focusing on attracting developers does not preclude
striving for becoming the best KDE distro for end-users as long
as there are people interested in working on it.
There are many voluntary contributors who work on a certain area
of their personal interest and who will not suddely move to work
on a different area. In the worst case we will just lose these
people.

You cannot simply redistribute resources at will within the
project, this might be how it works in corporate entities (that
is among paid (Novell) employees) but certainly not among
voluntary contributors. This seems to be a fundamental
misconception prevalent in the whole debate.

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Guido Berhoerster
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