Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:03:48 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.
> However, through the build service it should be possible to get a
> more accurate picture in what areas people are contributing, in
> particular the distribution of contributions from outside Novell
> might be of interest here. The rest can only be gathered from
> input through this list, but not every contributor (member or
> not) might even be aware of the discussion taking place.

See here for the results of the survey:
http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010

Also the Strategy pages contain some insights from the survey: 
http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy/Process

Andreas
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