Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guido Berhoerster wrote:

> * Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-06-29 13:36]:
> > Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> >
> > > I find this one exemplary for the arbitraryness of the whole
> > > strategy debate
> >
> > To me it looked more like "the impossible option", which is only
> > there to put more focus on the others.
> >
> > > which seems to be centered around the notion that having a new
> > > stratgey is an end in itself while completely disregarding the
> > > existing community structure and the needs and preferences of users
> > > and contributors.
> >
> > I think the issue is that we have no suitable method of ascertaining
> > those needs and preferences.
>
> IIRC there was a user survey recently, I don't know if the
> results have been/are going to be published. It should give at
> least a hint at current usage patterns and community structure
> altough the the representativeness of such an online survey about
> freely obtainable product is of course questionable.

I think it probably does give a hint of the current status, but that's
not necessarily what we desire.  I'm sure we all have our own agendas
wrt openSUSE, but one important idea of the strategy discussion is that
we disregard those for a bit and think of how we can best
define "openSUSE, the Linux distribution".  The current status is
somewhat important, but it doesn't really have many distinguishing
features.



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Per Jessen, Zürich (27.8°C)

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