Hi again.
I have read the current news on the openSUSE team and the plans to step back from the development.
... for some time to work on (for them or even us) more important things.
In general, I don't see a big problem here, but one thing really makes me a bit anxious: As Coolo is also part of the team, is it even possible to release a new version of openSUSE without him?
Probably not completely but given this post http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2014-01/msg00416.html I understood that coolo would be willing to help for a release in November. And I also would hope that coolo wouldn't just disappear from the world. I'm always wondering why SUSE employed openSUSE community members are limited to their "8 hour work". I do (almost) all my contributions outside my day job in my
http://osrc.dfm.io/coolo - if you watch closely I sleep ~3 hours a day ;)
Which is even one more reason for why you shouldn't need to do all the work alone. I have taken a look at: https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/opensuse-13-1-release/issues and think I could help on some future issues like that. I am going to talk to Ludwig about that, so that he gives me some instructions. Greets Marcus