Am 11.07.22 um 01:04 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Sun 2022-07-10, David C. Rankin wrote:
Hard to imagine a company with $2B in annuals and $1/2B quarterly just wants to throw flatpacks at it? https://ir.suse.com/websites/suse/English/6400/quarterly-reports.html
Thanks for providing that pointer. This makes it easy for folks to get to actual numbers (which are quite a bit different).
Somewhere someone with little regard for openSUSE has made the decision to cut costs.
I can guarantee this is not the case. This is about user experience, lifecycle challenges, technical questions, and balancing requirements.
(Mind, I'm not claiming it's easy nor that the current drafts on the table are where things will end up. Just that the people working on this do care about open source and openSUSE and that cost cutting is not the driver.)
That is good to know, thanks. But what clear is: The current model does not work. Look at the certbot disaster (boo#1198851): since more than 2 months a major software component of openSUSE 15.4 is broken, and everybody is just waiting because some SLE components are involved. If some container-based machinery would exist, this could be solved faster, perhaps. But if such containers really need to be used for nearly everything is another question. Cheers, Manfred
Gerald