On 10/26/2011 11:13 AM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Now you'll probably say that "all the important jobs like project manager are occupied by SUSE employees" and I will answer "go for it, if you want one of those jobs I will do everything I can to help you get it". If we then find out that those ugly SUSE bastards are glued to their seats and just don't want to give up anything to the community, well, then I'll happily support your claims.
I think you make a very good point here. First, nobody prevents you to try a new booting mechanism. You have all the tools in openSUSE to build your own spin of the distribution with not only a new booting mechanism but a different desktop, kernel, package set, etc. Have an idea? Go and produce the .iso. Tell the community to try it and convince them to be the default. This of course means you have to maintain it. Now, for the default released distribution, the project manager gets to decide what combination of pieces he needs for assembling the product. Don't like that? Then step up as project manager of your own alternative image and convince the community that the alternative is better than the default. The bad news? all those jobs where you get to decide a lot are all full-time jobs. So make sure you know what you are doing before you step up. The good news? You don't need to ask to help. Just like Bernhard set openqa up and started helping with testing, you don't need to "ask" to do something. You do it in parallel, you do a fork. If it is good it will be considered. And you will get to decide more. In FOSS, quite a lot of people think that having an opinion makes them contributors. Sadly, everyone has an opinion. -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - http://www.suse.com/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org