Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-08-04 15:34]:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 15:22:26 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > [...]
> > Now you assume that you can shift resources around, which is perfectly
> > valid point in a company organization. In a volunteers world this is not
> > going to work. If I have to choose between working on project A for
> > distribution X as my only 'work space', then I might as well just define
> > that distribution X is not what I want to invest my time into. so instead
> > of shifting resources and focusing them, you alienate a part of the
> > community, have them leave or get inactive for not fully backing the new
> > 'strategy' up. You might possibly win new resources, once your
> > 'one-desktopto-rule-them-all' is polished enough. But reaching this with
> > less resources will certainly not be so easy. And if the new contributors
> > would join in the state the project is now: why would they not do it just
> > because some other group takes care of a second UI stack?
>
> I agree with Dominique on this, if openSUSE goes this direction, I cannot see 
> a single person working on GNOME switching to working on KDE.  We even would 
> lose directly since GNOME developers maintain packages that are needed for 
> both GNOME and KDE or for the complete distribution.
>
> The two main desktops both have their place since they handle many things 
> differently, the different philosophies behind them help to bring both 
> forward 
> (competition is good!).  I agree that much more could be done in working 
> together with common infrastructure - e.g. like both Akanodi and Evolution 
> developed in the last 12 months their own new IMAP libraries ;-(.  
>
> Also, I've heard last year that changing the installation to make KDE the 
> default installed desktop would bring us so many KDE developers that help to 
> polish the openSUSE KDE desktop.  I'm not seeing that many new faces ;-(

All of this does equally apply to the other proposals with a
narrow focus (i.e. the "cloud and mobile" and "base for
derivatives").

-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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