Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (202 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> [06-15-11 12:20]:
> experts are not experts on anything like marketing, for example
>
> There should be a formal way to make sure a decision is made on
> important subjects in a known way by known people.
>
> A "technical staff" with experts from various domain, including
> marketing and project, in charge of saying the final "yes" or "no".
>
> A way not to do again some odd decision we suffered from in the past
> witout even knowing who decided to do so.
>
> This staff could include the board (but not only) and hold an IRC
> meeting at some important period of the distribution lifetime. Just
> before RC and feature freeze could be a good moment.
>
> Asking  some questions like:
>
> * systemd and inits at still available, what one do we make default
> for the Gold master?
> * Gnome 4 is nearly ready, and us are we ready?
>
> you see the point? Like we work now, nobody is responsible (who
> choosed between kde3 and kde4 as default?) - for the good or the bad

This is becoming a *government/politics* issue.  Have we reached the point
of "leaership by committee"?  At some point, *someone* must be empowered
to make rational decisions as the world will wait for no-one and we *will*
be left in the lurch.

I *trust* those with knowledge to make intelligent decisions about my
software platform the same as I trust my doctor/lawyer/financier/...  When
I find that the trust is not warranted, I *will* make changes.

I will say that from the "discussion" here that I feel (I have sufficient
lack of expertise to do other than "feel") systemd is the future.

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