Am Monday 08 May 2006 13:08 schrieb Pascal Bleser: ...
Most notably, the staff dedicated to openSUSE at Novell is too small in numbers. This has some implications, as we cannot tell Novell what to do with its money (no jdd, we can't):
I think the main problem here is that the distribution gets still compiled with the internal autobuild. Our plan is to move out the packages step by step to the public Build Service. I hope that we can develop 10.2 with the public build service which should improve this situation at least in regard of the distribution development.
- information flow: not enough information between different parts of the community, also about the wiki, announcements, changes, decisions, ...
Other, minor ideas, such as having @opensuse.org email addresses, to show we're part of the community (this has been mentioned once on the list, but hasn't been discussed further).
While I agree that there should become more people an @opensuse.org email address, I disagree that everybody should get one. Because not every user of openSUSE should be able to speak for the project. The question is, how we can decide/vote who should get one ? How many people should get one ? I would be very happy, if we could elect some committee for these questions ... Btw, a forward address for everybody could be someone@user.opensuse.org for using it esp in regard with the build service... How does this sound ?
I'm sick of having unanswered questions, waiting for the build service to solve all problems, and waiting for folks at SUSE/Novell to do things for us because they're busy with development, beta phases or the many other things they have to do (note: this is not meant to be a rant against the SUSE staff, they have a lot of work and not enough people dedicated to openSUSE).
Sorry for this, but the build service is already there for people, who accept bugs, problems, downtimes and so on. You can already build public packages.
We have to get our act together, drive topics and initiatives on this very list ourselves, then come up with agreed upon, realistic proposals or requests to Novell, if needed. Of course, it's even better when we don't have to. And let's please discuss important issues first.
This is a benevolent dictatorship model, but that doesn't mean that we should just sit back, rant and wait for things to be done by them.
At least that's my vision on how we should evolve as a community, and I've been using SUSE since 5.0 (= quite some time), waiting for these opportunities to happen. Maybe I'm just too impatient, I probably am, but I objectively think we're pretty much stuck in inertia right now.
Impatientness is a good motivation :) -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de