Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (465 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Torsdag den 29. juli 2010 13:02:51 skrev Jan Engelhardt:
> What bothers me about all this "We will focus on this" and "We won't focus
> on that anymore" is that it's completely blurry.
>
> Consider this hypothetical thought: Let end users be the primary
> focus and technical users be a secondary target, with a work shift
> from Base:System towards KDE. Suppose that there is now a loose group
> of individuals that bring back the life to Base:System, perhaps even
> more than is done to KDE. The work being done now does not match with
> the strategy anymore. What do you do? Who determines where a
> distribution is headed, what its primary targets are? What if the
> strategy reads end users, but suddenly every developer loses interest
> in KDE and GNOME?
>
> My point is, you say primary focus is here or there, and I am
> questioning whether you (pl.) are even in the position to declare
> such a statement when it's not even clear that the end-user area
> receives the most love right now.

I guess the idea is that when members have voted for, and selected a strategy, 
they will respect it, and "abide" by it. And it will also affect what type of 
new contributors would come to the project. E.g. noone would join Ubuntu, 
who's interested in a high-tech, geeky distro, and noone craving ultimate 
stability would join Fedora.

But I share your concern. I think the proposed strategies can only expect to 
get minimal support because they are all way too far away from the status quo 
and past of SUSE - which is the reason why most people are here to begin with.

Furtermore, the strategy is seen as only affecting volunteers (and boosters I 
guess), with apparently no commitment from Novell to the openSUSE strategy 
whatsoever.

So I too fear that regardless what ends up being decided, it'll just be empty 
words, that won't change a thing in real life. 

Without wholehearted support from (most) volunteers and employees, the 
strategy will be dead in the water.
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