The REALLY short version of my opinion is:
I do not think the upstream KDE project is positioned, structured, and responsive in a way that makes sense for an Enterprise distribution.
I also think that the current offerings of the KDE project are not of sufficient quality to justify being the default in any community distribution, not even openSUSE.
Neither of my above opinions should be read imply any sort of negativity towards OUR KDE team. I have a very, very, very high level of respect, admiration, amazement, and more for our openSUSE KDE team.
Their exceptional efforts despite the hurdles in-front of them do not subtract from my opinion that KDE upstream makes things harder than necessary to live with them.
WOW, that was some confusing wording. Are they unresponsive and lack structure or are they amazing?
OUR KDE == Part of the upstream KDE, I’d hope.
With the way KDE works, no, not really
For the purposes of this discussion I do not consider our openSUSE KDE team != Part of upstream KDE. Luca sorta is but AFAIK he isn't a maintainer of any part of KDE in practical terms.
Call it cultural differences, result of community decisions, ivory tower mentality, or just a fact of life, but upstream KDE maintainers pretty much do their own thing, and our team is pretty much packaging, polishing, and altering what upstream KDE do.
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