Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Director Product Management, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Appliances
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