On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
We already have a strategy, before this discussion it had not been written down (and it would even provide an answer to your example). Whether it is inadequate and we a different strategy is another issue.
I'll make the point that we (the openSUSE community) do not have a shared, communicated, well-known, largely agreed upon strategy for openSUSE.
By implication this means that such decisions will always go to the expense of the "non-focus" teams as it's not a level playing field any more. Kubuntu is a prime example for the effect of a "non-focus" spinoff suffering from a lack of quality, integration and contributors stuck in a vicious circle. There is much to loose.
What I am reading, I think, is that you prefer to avoid tradeoffs
where they can be avoided by collaboration, for example. And win-
win obviously is preferrable.
There will, however, always be some cases where a call needs to be
made, and that is where a strategy helps making that call as opposed
to a string of ad hoc decisions.
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer