On 2023-04-20 10:27, Richard Brown wrote:
The question really though is, given the above, what does the openSUSE community want to build?
If I am allowed to chime in, I would say "nothing". I see ALP more about innovation in the process of building a distribution instead of a technical asset that can be repurposed to build some derivative. So instead of building something on top of ALP, I would take those very valuable improvement in the process and try to integrate naturally in openSUSE. For example: * Embrace and improve the git-based development model. * Rethink the ring-0,1 and devel projects based on the layout that ALP is experimenting. Maybe a reformulation can help to separate better the realm of bootstrap, core and pool for packages. * Redefine MicroOS and MicroOS Desktop on top of this model, so I can separate good MicroOS packages (packages that behave well in transactional OS) from other that needs to be adapted * Use the new installation methods like d-installer / agama For me, having an openSUSE ALP should be less useful, unless I am in a position where I expect to migrate later to SUSE ALP looking for support (also a valuable feature, but I would expect in this case that is SUSE who define this openSUSE ALP, instead the project itself)