On Fri, May 14, Eric Schirra wrote:
But there is something wrong with openSUSE / SUSE.
Important: openSUSE != SUSE
At some point you won't find a maintainer for apache. Then this is also no longer an important package?
Yes. cyrus-impad is no important package for SUSE, SUSE does not even ship it. There is no customer interested in, they are using dovecot, which we ship. If nobody is using apache anymore, but e.g. everybody is using nginx or another new webserver, SUSE will also stop maintaining apache. And if there is nobody in the openSUSE community, who is interested in apache, because 99% are using the new web server, too, it will be dropped.
Sorry I do not understand this approach and, in my opinion, it is the completely wrong way and, especially if it continues like this, it will mean the downfall of openSUSE / SUSE.
Why should SUSE pay people to maintain a package for openSUSE, which SUSE and their customers don't need and where the openSUSE community has no interest in, only for you?
Because if important packages like cyrus or, hypotetically speaking, Apache are missing, nobody needs or wants them. How does SUSE make this clear to its enterprise customers?
Since the enterprise customers are using dovecot and not cyrus, they didn't care.
"Sorry, the community no longer has a maintainer, so no cyrus and apache, you just have to take something else". Then at the latest I would switch as a paying customer.
If you would be a pying customer, SUSE would earn money with which they could pay somebody to maintain this packages. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Felix Imendoerffer (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)